More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
  2. 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…
  3. We boil at different degrees.
  4. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
  5. A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest …
  6. God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
  7. 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and un…
  8. A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs, The world uncertain comes and goes; The lover rooted stays.

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