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“The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.”

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

This volume includes Emerson's influential essays on various aspects of human conduct and the nature of individual identity, reflecting his philosophy of transcendentalism and its impact on American culture. more

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Born on May 25, 1803, and died on April 27, 1882. Known for his transcendentalist philosophy, his works have had a profound impact on literature and the intellectual world. more

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“Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.”

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.”

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Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.”

Men Feels Children Beautiful Generations Youth Flower Adults Concern Ridiculous Tenderness Bachelors

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.”

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Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)

“Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.”

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Book:Essays (Annotated Edition)

Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)

“A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.”

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Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!”

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Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.”

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Book:Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures