Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Weitere Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zum Autor"Culture with us ends in headache."
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
"This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."
"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."