More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
  2. The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
  3. I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, bu…
  4. I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs…
  5. Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
  6. The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
  7. The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
  8. Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generatio…

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