Emerson Quote by Eric Butterworth

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his…

— Nanci Kincaid

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them -…

— Boris Pasternak

“Emerson loved the good and his life was a symphony of peace and harmony, Carlyle hated the bad, and his life was a record…

— Anonymous

“He came to the conclusion that it was because there were some things you remembered with your head, like numbers, and other things you…

— B. Glen Rotchin

“The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.”

— Mark Twain

“Emerson, you just shared your deepest secret with me. I value that. Don't make light of it." If he wasn't already holding my heart…

— Myra McEntire

“For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own…

— Elizabeth Peters

“He'd read that once in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in…

— Anonymous

“I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful enough to…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge…

— Ernestine Gilbreth Carey