The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-07
ApHoRIsMs BY EMERSON.

Goodies make us very bad
The only teller Of news IL the poet
A strenuous soul hates cheap successes.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Men are respectable only as they respect.
Half mans wisdom goes with his cour-
Nature loves ana.ogies. but not repeti-
tions.
Where there is no vision the people
perish.
Obedience alone gives the right to COM
mand.
The popular religion Is an excellent con-
stable.
Good manners are made up of petty sac
rifces.
A. man makes his interiors his superiors
by heat.
1t Is in vain to make paradise but for
good men.
It is better to die for beauty than to live
The highest revelation is that God is in
Sincere and happy conversation doubles
The truest state of thought rested in be-
comes false.
Future state is an Illusion for the ever
present state.
There is hope in extravaganza; there is
II, the heather rage 1t is because che
Christians doubt.
My creed Is very simple, that goodness
Is the only reality
world is In minorities.
Man is the image Of God; why run after
ghost or a dream
The great are not tender about being OBJ
scure. despised, insulted.
1t Is a bad sign In man TO be too con-
scientiOus and stick at gratis.
Omit the negative propositions; nerve
us with incessant afflrmations.
The mind stretches an hour to q century
and dwarfs an age to an hour.
think there Is as much merit In beauti-
ful manners as In hard work
find nothing In fables more astonishing
than my experience In every hour.
A rush Of thoughts Is the only conceiv-
able prosperity that can come to us.
Genius believes its faintest presentiment
against the est.mony Of all history.
Prosperity and pound-cake are for very
young gentlemen, whom such things con-
tent.
Let us say then frankly that the educa-
t!on Of the will is the object of our exist
ence.
In the human brain the universe Is re-
produced with all its opulence 6. reveal
tions.
TO every reproach know but one an
swer, namely, to go again to my own
work. .. .-.
The greatest wonder is that we can see
these trees Din YOsemite) and not wonder
more.
Have no regard to the influence of your
example, but act always from the simplest
motive.
A low self-love In the parent desires that
his child should repeat his character and
fortune.
BY humility We rise, by obedience VIC
command. by poverty We are rich. by dy-
ing we live.
No aristocrat, no prince born to the pur-
pie, can begin to compare with the self
respect Of the saint.
The way to have large occasional views.
as In political or social crisis, Is to have
large habitual views.
Give up once for all, the hope of apprO-
baton from the people In the street, if you
are pursuing great ends.
A determined man, by his very attitude
and the tone of his voice. puts stop TO
defeat and begins to conquer.
The sun grudges his light. the air his
breath. to him who stands with his hands
folded In the great school of God.
1t Is curious to see what grand powers
we have hint Of, and are mad to grasp.
yet how slow heaven Is to trust us with
such edge tools
Wondrous state of man; never so happy
as when he has lost all private interests
and regards. and exists only In obedience
and love of the author.