John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803–1882) (continued) |
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. |
Essays. First Series. History. |
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. |
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. |
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. |
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
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Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. |
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. |
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
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To be great is to be misunderstood. |
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. |
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. |
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. |
Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance. |
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. |
Essays. First Series. Compensation. |
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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. |
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Men are better than their theology. |
Essays. First Series. Compensation. |
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All mankind love a lover. |
Essays. First Series. Love. |
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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. |