The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Reputation Quotes

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have...

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have...

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...

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value...

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value...

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

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

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

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

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

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Flowers are the earth laughing.

Flowers are the earth laughing.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our...

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on canned laughter grafted by gaglines by...

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on canned laughter grafted by gaglines by...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not...