Waldo

Famous quotes containing the word waldo:

“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“But man crouches and blushes,
Absconds and conceals;
He creepeth and peepeth,
He palters and steals;
Infirm, melancholy,
Jealous glancing around,
An oaf, an accomplice,
He poisons the ground.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)