Ralph Waldo Emerson: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 15)

“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“Love what is simple and beautiful.
These are the essentials.”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.”

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”

“Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

“Common sense is as rare as genius.”

“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”

“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”