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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
19th Century American Literature
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Achievement: The reward of a thing…
Ambition: Hitch your wagon to a…
Anger: We boil at different degrees.
Appearance: Outside, among your fellows, among strangers,…
Architecture: The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in…
Arrogance: I could readily see in…
Art: Art is a jealous mistress.
Art: In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a…
Art: The conscious utterance of thought, by speech…
Boston: We say the cows laid out Boston. Well there…
Character: A foolish consistency is the…
Character: He is like one of those old cardinals,…
Character: What is a weed? A…
Corruption: Whatever is old corrupts, and the past…
Crime: The reason of idleness and crime is the…
Critics: Waldo is one of those…
Education: I pay the schoolmaster, but…
Enthusiasm: Nothing great was ever achieved…
Experience: If the whole of history is in one man, it…
Friends: A Friend may well be…
Greatness: Every hero becomes a bore…
Greatness: To be great is to…
Health and Healthy Living: Give me health and a…
Health and Healthy Living: The multitude of the sick…
Heroism: That new saint, than whom nothing purer or more…
History: A record of the power of minorities, and…
History: An institution is the lengthened shadow of…
History: History is all party pamphlets.
History: History is the action and reaction of these…
History: History is vanishing allegory.
History: I am ashamed to see what a shallow village…
History: In analyzing history do not be too…
History: Man is explicable by nothing less than all…
History: The centuries are conspirators against…
History: There is properly no history;…
Human Condition: Every man is wanted, and…
Human Nature: A person seldom falls sick,…
Humankind: Man is physically as well…
Hypocrisy: The louder he talked of…
Ideas: It is a lesson which all history teaches…
Illness: It is dainty to be…
Inventions: If a man make a…
Jane Austen: I am at a loss…
Law: Good men must not obey…
Love: A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea…
Lovers: All mankind love a lover.
Madness: Sanity is very rare: every…
Maine: In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers'…
Medicine: Homeopathy is insignificant as an…
Medicine: In the hands of the…
Medicine: To a physician, each man,…
Morality: Wilt thou seal up the…
Nature: Nature tells every secret once.
Nature: There is less intention in history than we…
New Hampshire: The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the…
Occupations: The wonder is always new…
Old Age: Old age brings along with…
Opinions: The hearing ear is always…
Poets: There comes Emerson first, whose rich words,…
Politicians: He is no literary old gentleman, but a…
Power: If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept…
Praise: He needs a great deal of cutting and…
Present, The: The use of history is to give value to the…
Prudence: In skating over thin ice,…
Religion: The religions we call false…
Remedies: The poisons are our principal…
Science: Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of…
Science: 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in…
Self: Every man contemplates an angel…
Selfishness: All sensible people are selfish,…
Self-Reliance: Whoso would be a man…
Sleep: Health is the first muse,…
Speeches: A good indignation makes an excellent…
Speeches: One of our statesmen said,…
Supernatural, The: One mode of the divine teaching is the…
Time: Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine…
Vanity: Not from a vain or…
Virtue: The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way …
Weather: Coal is a portable climate.
Wisdom: We are wiser than we…
Writers: Emerson is one who lives…
Writers: Shakespeare is the only biographer of…
Writers: Talent alone cannot make a…
Writers: The gentleman was a sweet…
Writing: The book written against fame…
Youth: America is a country of…
scholars and critics
support of woman suffrage movement
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