How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Gifts Quotes, Giving Quotes, Pain Quotes

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Men are respectable only as they respect

Men are respectable only as they respect

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth...

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both...

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both...

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the...

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to...

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance,...

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance,...

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without...

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without...

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Picture an iceberg. The bulk of its power lies below the surface. The part of...

Picture an iceberg. The bulk of its power lies below the surface. The part of...

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never...

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never...