Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bad times have a scientific value. [...] We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of clove

Bad times have a scientific value. [...] We learn geology the morning after the — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. [...] We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou animated torrid-zone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolutions never go backwards. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to rot on the ground by hims — Émile Zola
Oppression and tyranny are the worse companions for the Hereafter. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows — Leo Tolstoy
What a dreary world we live in, gentlemen. — Nikolai Gogol
It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to — Leonardo da Vinci
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit — Omar Khayyám
You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. — Oscar Wilde