Quote #39
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
- Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
- Children are all foreigners.
- The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
- Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, bu…