A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Culture implies all that which gives the mind possession of its own powers as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imitation is suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Dreams Quotes, God Quotes, Immortality Quotes, Life Quotes, Man QuotesBased on Keywords: gently
Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
Toni Collette
I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.
Hugh Grant
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
Friedrich Schiller