3 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Loss

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on loss

114. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.

160. I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.

176. Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.