More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
  2. None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
  3. The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the …
  4. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and hi…
  5. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to tr…
  6. I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of b…
  7. Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
  8. Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

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