More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
  2. The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.
  3. In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource aga…
  4. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
  5. The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
  6. 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…
  7. Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
  8. A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.

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