More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.
  2. In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passi…
  3. 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 …
  4. The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself …
  5. A man is a god in ruins.
  6. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The …
  7. We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.
  8. Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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