Quote #129
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
- Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
- In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find t…
- One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
- I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
- Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.