More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
  2. Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
  3. 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 …
  4. The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
  5. Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
  6. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
  7. 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.
  8. I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeli…

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