Ralph Waldo Emerson: Frases en inglés (página 9)

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”

“Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him.”

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

“Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.”

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.”

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

“You are constantly invited to be what you are.”