More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them…
  2. Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
  3. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist,…
  4. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'
  5. Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
  6. These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day. The student is to read history actively and not passively; t…
  7. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the …
  8. Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

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