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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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«Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.»
«There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.»
«We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has not superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends.»
«I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«Life too near paralyses art.»
«Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.»
«Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.»
«The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.»
«A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.»
«I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.»
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