We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.