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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed»
«All promise outruns performance.»
«The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul»
«Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!»
«To believe in luck - is skepticism»
«As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect»
«It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.»
«Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.»
«Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind»
«Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative»