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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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«For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
avail, avails, plough, sail, The Plough
«Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
after, passe, passes, search, The Search
«The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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acted, as a matter of fact, collect, on it, sensation, sense experience, surface, the senses
«A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.»
«To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Adulthood
| Keywords:
adult, Eye of, illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, persons, shines, superficial, The Eye
«We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
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ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, extremes, related, related to, superfluous, to that
«I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.»
«Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.»
«Travel is a fools paradise.»
«We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.»
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