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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«It came into him life, it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went from him poetry. It was a dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in porportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it live.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.»
«Do your work, but do your thing.»
«The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.»
«Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint»
«The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose»
«It is the eye which makes the horizon.»
«The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore»
«The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.»
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