"What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.












Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"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.
"Give all to love obey thy heart.
"Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their ha...
"Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.
"The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
"There are some men above grief and some men below it.
"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
"A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.
"We are wiser than we know.
"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good sp...
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.