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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson