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| Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803–1882) (continued) |
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| 6274 |
| Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. |
| Essays. First Series. History. |
| 6275 |
| Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. |
| Essays. First Series. History. |
| 6276 |
| A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. |
| Essays. First Series. History. |
| 6277 |
| The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
| 6278 |
| Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
| 6279 |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
| 6280 |
| To be great is to be misunderstood. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
| 6281 |
| Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
| 6282 |
| The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
| 6283 |
| Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
| 6284 |
| Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. |
| Essays. First Series. Compensation. |
| 6285 |
| It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. |
| Essays. First Series. Compensation. |
| 6286 |
| Men are better than their theology. |
| Essays. First Series. Compensation. |
| 6287 |
| All mankind love a lover. |
| Essays. First Series. Love. |
| 6288 |
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays. |
| Essays. First Series. Epigraph to Friendship. |
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