Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think and feel, underlay that former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and will always circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death.
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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFew and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
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Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: virtue virtues rule exception
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: life unique living medicine honest battle conquest alms
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: gold freedom libertarianism benefit
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful;
for beauty is God’s handwriting—a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower,
and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences that you show me, I can find no beauty, for I see death in every clause and every word. There is a fossil or a mummy character which pervades this book. The best sepulchers, the vastest catacombs, Thebes and Cairo, Pyramids, are sepulchers to me. I like gardens and nurseries. Give me initiative, spermatic, prophesying, man-making words.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIs it not the true scholar the only true master?
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