Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882
1847 photo by Southworth & Hawes, from the George Eastman House Collection
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- To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Today unbind the captive,
So only are ye unbound;
Lift up a people from the dust,
Trump of their rescue, sound! permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Traveling is a fool's paradise.... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Truth is beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Try not to become a person of success, rather try to become a person of value. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - We aim above the mark to hit the mark. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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