4 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Memory

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on memory

38. The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

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.

278. A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.

291. I no more remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.