More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
  2. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
  3. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
  4. Hitch your wagon to a star.
  5. '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…
  6. The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
  7. 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 …
  8. Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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