Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers a >>

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable min >>

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. >>

Quotations about Talent

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. >>

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. >>

Hidden talent counts for nothing. >>

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo