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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is a...
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
It is only...
It is only when the mind and character slumber that dress can be seen.
Source: In...
Insist on yourself;...
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...
It is very...
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
If you would...
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
Source: In Webster's...
Language is fossil...
Language is fossil poetry.
Source: Essays, 'The Poet.'
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson,...
It is very...
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But...
It does not...
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new...
It the proof...
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
In nature nothing...
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
Source: In
Language is the...
Language is the archives of history.
Source: Essays, The Poet (Second Series),...
Judge of your...
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
Source: In
It is a...
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in...
Knowledge comes by...
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not...
In politics and...
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and...
Let the stoics...
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the...
Law rules throughout...
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
It makes a...
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Liberty is slow...
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness...
In skating over...
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Source: Essays, Prudence ...