Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering
trade.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering
trade.
Skepticism is slow suicide.
Skepticism is slow suicide.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that
intense light will not make it beautiful.
The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
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The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart
Till these echoes be choked with snows
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
Obedience alone gives the right to command
Obedience alone gives the right to command
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
