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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods»
«The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it»
«Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has, until he has learned to use that little better»
«The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
conservatism, disputed, two-party
«Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
insignificant, trespassing
«The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.»
«Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.»
«Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.»
«The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.»
«In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.»
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