Ralph Waldo Emerson: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 11)

“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”

“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”

“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”

“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”

“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

“Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”

“I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.”

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”

“My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.”