"Every sweet has its sour; every evil..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.”
“No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.”
“Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?”
More on Balance
“You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.”
“There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.”
“Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.”
More on Duality
“[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.”
“I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”
“Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.”