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«The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Passion
| Keywords:
profoundest, publishes, sensibility, sleeps
«Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Commerce
| Keywords:
aspiration, import, imported, imports
«There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.»
«One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.»
«Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories, or, as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases, and the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the»
«War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
Action The, educates, measures, perfects
«The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.»
«There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
authoritative, passionate, rank, revolutionary, stringent
«Do what we can, summer will have its flies.»
«Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.»
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