Quote #203
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
- The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
- We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
- Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they liv…