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Ralph Waldo Emerson: top 300 quotes
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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.
Fear (n.) defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Fear (n.) is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Fear (n.) is to be surmounted every day. To learn this is to learn the lesson of life.
Fear (n.) always springs from ignorance.
Civilization (n.) is to be measured by the influence of good women.
Civilization's (n.) true test is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Civilization (n.) is the result of highly complex organisation.
Civilization (n.) is, as we think, near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.
Civilization (n.) has for its problem how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature.
A Friend (n.) is the best ornament one's home can have.
A Friend (n.) is a person before whom I may think aloud.
A Friend (n.) is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
A Friend (n.) is one before whom I may think aloud.
A Friend (n.) is a person with whom I may be sincere.
A Friend (n.) can make us do what we can.
A Friend (n.) is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
The Friend (n.) is the masterpiece of Nature.
Suicide (n.) is either the way out, or the way in.