Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confe >>

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight w >>

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the a >>

Quotations about Persecution

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little >>

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner >>

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, >>

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo