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«Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
burned, enlightens, expunge, expunged, reverberate, reverberated, reverberates, reverberating, side-to-side, suppressed
«Whoso would be a man would be a nonconformist»
«Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other»
«The force of character is cumulative»
«Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Ideas
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work through
«A nation never falls but by suicide»
«Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage»
«Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to»
«I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar»
«As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
concentrate, gardener, gardeners, limbs, miscellaneous, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, severe, vigorous
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