John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803–1882) (continued) |
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| Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. |
| 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.” |
| Sacrifice. |
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| For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? |
| Boston. |
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| If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep and pass and turn again. |
| Brahma. |
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| Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. |
| Wood-notes. |
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| Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care. |
| To the humble Bee. |
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| Thou animated torrid-zone. |
| To the humble Bee. |
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| In the vaunted works of Art The master-stroke is Nature’s part. 1 |
| Art. |
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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. 2 |
| Nature. Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar. |
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| There is no great and no small 3 To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere. |
| Essays. First Series. Epigraph to History. |
| Note 1. Also in Society and Solitude: Art. Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best part of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration. [back] |
| Note 2. Everything comes if a man will only wait.—Disraeli: Tancred, book iv. chap. viii. [back] |
| Note 3. See Pope, page 316. [back] |