More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource aga…
  2. Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
  3. The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
  4. The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.
  5. Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
  6. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
  7. A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
  8. The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mi…

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