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'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies: if we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitos: if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is Nature's part. 5.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson