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“It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.”

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book:Nature and Other Essays

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Nature and Other Essays

This book is a compilation of essays that delve into the intricate relationship between humans and the natural world, offering insights into environmental philosophy and the importance of preserving nature. 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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Book:Nature and Other Essays

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

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“To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.”

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“The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.”

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Book:The method of nature: An oration, delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, in Maine, August 11, 1841

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Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.”

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