Quotes on Favoritesongs.info | Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.


By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
All life is an experiment.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The years teach much which the days never knew.
All mankind love a lover.
Men are what their mothers made them.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
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