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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Literature,
Quotations
| Keywords:
borrower, Borrowers, mimic, mimics, quotation, theatrical, theatricals
«For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
flows, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, passages, stimulate
«Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed»
«It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in the peach- bloom complexion»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
bloom, bones, complexions, peach, peaches, soundness
«The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Aurora, beast, boys, descending, engines, feather, houses, inflicting, insane, mob, outrage, outraged, outrages, persecutes, prank, pranks, put into action, put out, resembles, ruddier, ruddy, streaming, tar-and-feather, tar, The Beast, the mob, voluntarily, whip
«Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.»
«Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul... Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.»
«There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
a little, fanaticism, little, performance, performer, performers, strong, There is no
«Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Generosity
| Keywords:
advantages, generosity, larger, noblesse, noblesse oblige, oblige
«Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Architecture,
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, jealous, mistress, provider, providers
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