Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 10 of 488 )
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.
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.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale,
their feet are cold, their heads are read more
The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale,
their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without
sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger,
and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they
entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and
nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society
to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of
proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application,
and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize
it.
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we read more
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we
must get rid of freedom.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
