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Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! - Conduct of Life--Behavior [Eyes] Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. - Conduct of Life--Considerations by the Way [Government] The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. - Conduct of Life--Fate [Thought] The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. - Conduct of Life--Worship [Public] A day for toil, an hour for sport, But for a friend is life too short. - Considerations by the Way [Friends] The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above, His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good. - Cupido [Love] Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands; To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all; I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I too late Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn. - Days [Day] The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem. - Dirge [Music] The greatest man in history was the poorest. - Domestic Life [Poverty] Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. - Each and All [Influence] Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these. - Emerson's Journal, October 25, 1867 [Success] Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactors. Luther, Mirabeau, Napoleon, John Adams, Andrew Jackson. - Emerson's Journal, June, 1863 [Egotism : Motive] The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. - Emerson's Journal (July, 1855) [Immortality] Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock. - Emerson's Journal (March, 1845) [Poetry] The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. - Emerson's Journals (May 25, 1843) [Nature : Sky] London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. - English Traits--Result [London] There is always safety in valor. - English Traits--The Times [Valor] A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is. - English Traits--Voyage to England (ch. II) [Mind] The house is a castle which the King cannot enter. - English Traits--Wealth [Home] Let us leave hurry to slaves. - Essay on Manners [Time] Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech. - Essay on Nominalist and Realist [Speech] He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. - Essay--Culture [Decision] Self-trust is the essence of heroism. - Essay--Heroism [Heroes] God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. - Essay--Intellect [Choice] No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. - Essay--On Character [Character] Displaying page 32 of 39 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 [32] 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
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