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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.»
«Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.»
«An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.»
«A man's library is a sort of harem.»
«A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.»
«A man is a method, a progressive arrangement, a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.»
«A beautiful woman is a practical poet.»
«He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.»
«If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.»
«The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.»
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