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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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clothing, health care, lay up, provides, roof, sufficient, tight, tighter, wanting, wisely
«Hitch your wagon to a star.»
«The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
cheat, endeavors, make water, persecution, rope, run up, twist
«The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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confined, crusade, crusades, gold mine, power play, The Crusades, vents
«Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.»
«An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy»
«Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.»
«Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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bosom, chosen, civil, company, Company of, countries, library, out in, picked, smallest, Strangers, the smallest, The Strangers, transparent, uncover, uncovering, uncovers, wisest, wittiest
«Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
apologetically, caress, caressed, Caresses, caressing, celebrate, crown, disapprobation, doors, embraces, evermore, flinging, flings, flung, goes out, greet, greeted, greets, hated, held, helping, honors, scorned, self help, solicitously, the gods, the self, tongues, welcome, wide
«The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
controlling, German, probity, rests, sincerity, sprightliness, steadily, superficial, the English, the French
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