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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.