"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.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~












More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.
"To Be is to live with God.
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
"I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know ...
"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
"Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.
"God enters by a private door into every individual.
"The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
"He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained ...
"There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
"A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
"Do the thing and you will have the power.