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He is the whole encyclop? Dia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, greece, rome, gaul, britain, america, lie folded already in the first man (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for it's poet (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen, could not untie (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill favored (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of it's source is the force of it's projection (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name, this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of it's light (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Our globe discovers it's bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch angels, but in gossips and nurses (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; society will retaliate (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Mankind divides itself into two classes, benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to it's identity with morals (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, nature never pardons (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds and see prismatic dewdrops; but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Poets should be law givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
For no man can write anything who does not think that he writes is, for the time, the history of the world (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
This is that which we call character, a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)