"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.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~












When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
"The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
"When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is cr...
"The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
"She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
"To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endur...
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.