More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves…
  2. Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
  3. Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
  4. Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybea…
  5. 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…
  6. It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
  7. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'
  8. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the r…

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