Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.


The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations... (ed. 1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great...

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great...

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great...

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great...