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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson · 8 quotes · Men, World, Agents

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“With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.”

“The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.”

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”