Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"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."
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."