We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.


Selections from the prose works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1926)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy...

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy...

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy...

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy...