More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
  2. 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.
  3. There is no knowledge that is not power.
  4. Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
  5. We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
  6. Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part …
  7. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
  8. A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

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