More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
  2. Every really able man, in whatever direction he work, - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if …
  3. I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeli…
  4. Every artist was first an amateur.
  5. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
  6. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the b…
  7. The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
  8. Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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