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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Friendship | Keywords: reckoned
«There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. . . / Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.»
«Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know»
«Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.»
«The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Disease, Faith | Keywords: labors
«Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.»
«What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Discovery, Virtue | Keywords: weed
«The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.»
«The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties even»
«We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.»