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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays: First Series
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
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"Hitch your wagon to a star."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Society and Solitude
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"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Self-Reliance
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
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"Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Each and All.
Each and All.
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"I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Each and All.
Each and All.
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"Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / The Problem.
The Problem.
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"Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / The Problem.
The Problem.
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"The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / The Problem.
The Problem.
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"Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / The Problem.
The Problem.
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"Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Hamatreya.
Hamatreya.
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"Good bye, proud world! I 'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I 'm not thine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Good Bye.
Good Bye.
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"For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Good Bye.
Good Bye.
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"If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / The Rhodora.
The Rhodora.
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"Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing.
Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing.
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"Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ode to Beauty.
Ode to Beauty.
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"Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Give all to Love.
Give all to Love.
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"Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Blight.
Blight.
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"The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Dirge.
Dirge.
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"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Hymn sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument.
Hymn sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument.
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"What potent blood hath modest May!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson / May-Day.
May-Day.
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"And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / May-Day.
May-Day.
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"And every man, in love or pride, Of his fate is never wide."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Nemesis.
Nemesis.
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"None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Boston Hymn. 1863.
Boston Hymn. 1863.
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"Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857.
Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857.
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"Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857.
Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857.
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"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Voluntaries.
Voluntaries.
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"Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Voluntaries.
Voluntaries.
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"Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Solution.
Solution.
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"Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / In Memoriam.
In Memoriam.
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"Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / In Memoriam.
In Memoriam.
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"Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There 's no god dare wrong a worm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Compensation.
Compensation.
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"He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Beauty.
Beauty.
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"Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Suum Cuique.
Suum Cuique.
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"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Quatrains. Nature.
Quatrains. Nature.
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"Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,-- "'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die.""
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Sacrifice.
Sacrifice.
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"For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Boston.
Boston.
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"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Nature. Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar.
Nature. Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar.
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"There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays. First Series. Epigraph to History.
Essays. First Series. Epigraph to History.
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"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays. First Series. History.
Essays. First Series. History.
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"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays. First Series. History.
Essays. First Series. History.
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"A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays. First Series. History.
Essays. First Series. History.
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"The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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"To be great is to be misunderstood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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"Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will."
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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