More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Every man is wanted and no man is wanted much.
  2. Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home: Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.
  3. Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as bea…
  4. For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
  5. We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the inf…
  6. Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone.
  7. Hence, the less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Governm…
  8. I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on t…

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