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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.»
«Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light!»
«...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.»
«If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.»
«a word of contempt often in his mouth.»
«The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.»
«Nature never wears a mean appearance. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense of mind.»
«Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.»
«A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye . . .»
«A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.»
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