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The astonishment of life, is, the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The breadth of the problem is great, for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprises us not of ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet is death forevermore. Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin, Nor murdering hate, can enter in. All is now secure and fast.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump. With it comes a Latin ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and states...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rooted like oak-tr...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free,...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Returned this day, the south wind searches, And finds young pines and budding birches; But finds not the budding man.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rich are the sea-gods:Mwho gives gifts but they? They grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls:...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity. What manner...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for rea...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power first, or no leading class. In politics and trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. The genesis an...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, wil...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,—a certain robust and radiant p...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- lived or local, b...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the benefits of a college education is, to show the boy its little avail.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and l...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely de...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!—it seems to say,—there is victory yet for all justice; and the true r...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson