I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Thanksgiving Quotes

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...

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the...

Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the...

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not...

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not...

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There...

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There...

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the...

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the...

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion...

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion...

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only...

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only...

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts...

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that...

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that...