Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
"And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship."
"Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron."
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."