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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Music causes us to think eloquently.»
«Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.»
«The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.»
«Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.»
«So nigh is grandeur to our dust, / So near is God to man, / When Duty whispers low, / Thou must / The youth replies, / I can»
«We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
avarice, diseases, fickle, folk, hesitation, puny
«In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.»
«Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?»
«Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.»
«We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
past tense, present tense, rumors, set up, tense, wrath
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