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The Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) is a meticulously compiled and beautifully illustrated volume that brings together the extensive literary output of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This collection encompasses his essays, lectures, and poetry, showcasing his profound impact on American literature and philosophy. The inclusion of illustrations adds a visual dimension to the text, enhancing the reader's experience of Emerson's work.
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“Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.”
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“Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"”
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“Power dwells with cheerfulness.”
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“I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.”
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“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”
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“The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.”
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“Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
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“We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.”
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“Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.”
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“Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.”
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“A strenuous soul hates cheap success.”
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“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”
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“If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”
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“Every man alone is sincere.
At the entrance of a second person,
hypocrisy begins.
We parry and fend the approach
of our fellow-man by compliments,
by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
We cover up our thought from him
under a hundred folds.”
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“People say law but they mean wealth.”
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“Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.”
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“Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.”
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“Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.”
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“The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.”
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“Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.”
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“To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.”
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“What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.”
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“Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.”
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“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.”
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“Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.”
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“Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.”
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“Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore”
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“He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.”
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“Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.”
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“The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members”
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“There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.”
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“Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.”
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“The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.”
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“You cannot see the mountain near.”
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“There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.”
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“I like people who can do things”
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“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.”
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“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”
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“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
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“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
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“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
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“Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.”
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“The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.”
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“There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.”
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“Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.”
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“Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.”
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“We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.”
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“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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“The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.”
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“The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.”
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