Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.
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."
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
"Good breeding a union of kindness and independence."
"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."
"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."
"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."