More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
  2. The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
  3. A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs, The world uncertain comes and goes; The lover rooted stays.
  4. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
  5. Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never …
  6. The days .... come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use t…
  7. The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
  8. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

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