More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Every hero becomes a bore at last.
  2. Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
  3. When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with …
  4. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
  5. He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
  6. Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out,…
  7. Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By the stairway of sur…
  8. Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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