More Poems and Sonnets

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth laughs in flowers

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others

"…when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic…"

SUCCESS

"To laugh often and much

to win the respect

of intelligent people

and the affection of children;

to earn the appreciation

of honest critics and endure

the betrayal of false friends;

to appreciate beauty,

to find the best in others;

to leave the world

a bit better, whether

by a healthy child,

a garden patch

or a redeemed social condition;

to know one life

has breather easier

because you have lived.

That is to have succeeded

Others

I walked a mile with Pleasure
She chattered all the way,
And left me none the wiser,
For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow
And not a word said she,
But oh, the things I learned from her,
When sorrow walked with me.

Robert Browning Hamilton

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