Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Español: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Français : Ralph Waldo Emerson Italiano: Ralph Waldo Emerson Nederlands: Fotogravure van Ralph Waldo Emerson Português: Ralph Waldo Emerson Русский: Ральф Уолдо Эмерсон Svenska: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. –Ambrose Bierce, author and editor (1842-1914)
English: George Eliot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
—George Eliot, Middle March
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“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
1848 Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe at 39, a year before his death (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ”
—Edgar Allan Poe
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“Your faith is what you believe, not what you know. ”
—Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson, ca. 1857 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
—Henry Thoreau
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”
—George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880).
