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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today»
«Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn»
«A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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across, acrostic, Alexandrian, Alexandrians, backward, backward and forward, forward, spells
«The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech»
«All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
conservatives, defects, halt, invalid, invalids
«A fly is as untamable as a hyena.»
«Language is fossil poetry»
«Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions»
«The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do»
«Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Nature
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Hums, innumerable, repetition, The Variations, variation, variations, well known
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