• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes   4214
  • If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Love Quotes , Grief Quotes
  • Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Kings Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , God Quotes , Running Quotes