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Ralph Waldo Emerson: top 200 quotes
200 definitions
Architecture (n.) is the flowering of geometry.
A Child (n.) is a curly dimpled lunatic.
Life (n.) is what a man is thinking all day.
Life (n.) is a festival only to the wise.
Life (n.) is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Life (n.) is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Life (n.) is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
Life (n.) is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday, yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.
Life (n.) is short but there is always time for courtesy.
Life (n.) is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
Time (n.) is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
Civilization (n.) is to be measured by the influence of good women.
Progress (n.) is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
Suicide (n.) is either the way out, or the way in.