Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair >>

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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost >>

Quotations about Opportunity

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. >>

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed b >>

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected. >>

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo