Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
"This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."
"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
"Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not."
"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."