More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
  2. We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.
  3. Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a …
  4. A man is a god in ruins.
  5. There are always two parties, the party of the past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement...
  6. Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his brother what he thinks. He then learns, that in …
  7. The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that,…
  8. Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.

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