More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
  2. Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
  3. One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
  4. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm tha…
  5. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
  6. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always,…
  7. Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
  8. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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