If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
We do what we can, and then make up a theory to prove our performance the best.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the eldest inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's library is a sort of harem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love thy music, mellow bell,
I love thine iron chime,
To life or death, to heaven or hell,
Which calls the sons of Time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization depends on morality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Man QuotesThe glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
Belva Lockwood
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Aeschylus
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
Joan Didion