When it is darkest, men see the stars.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Mankind Quotes

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

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...

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison...

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison...

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Then beauty is its own excuse for being.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every...

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every...

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden...

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden...

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to...

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to...

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day...

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day...