More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
  2. Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
  3. We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.
  4. Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of fig…
  5. To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom
  6. Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure convey…
  7. The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.…
  8. Hence, the less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Governm…

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