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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh man! There...
Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
Painting was called...
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
Source: In
Speak what you...
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannonballs, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words...
No man acquires...
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
No member of...
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Source:...
One of the...
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
Passion, though a...
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Source: The Conduct of Life,...
Talent alone cannot...
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is...
No matter how...
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
Source: In
No one can...
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
Source: In
One of the...
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of...
People do not...
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of...
That which we...
That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
Source: Essays, Experience...
Nothing is more...
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Source:...
No one has...
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Only that mind...
Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
People wish to...
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for...
The arts and...
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Obedience alone gives...
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
No orator can...
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Source: In