Quote #145
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.…
- We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.
- Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
- A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
- Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
- Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?