Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
All successful men have agreed in one thing, --they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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