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«The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption /pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
interruption, interruptions, pallor, squalor
«That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.»
«The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.»
«Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.»
«The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
gauntlet, mob, recommended, The Gauntlet
«All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.»
«The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.»
«Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acorn, acorns, completion, fullness, oak
«Work is victory.»
«The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''»
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