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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
avail, avails, plough, sail, The Plough
«Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
after, passe, passes, search, The Search
«The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acted, as a matter of fact, collect, on it, sensation, sense experience, surface, the senses
«To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Adulthood
| Keywords:
adult, Eye of, illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, persons, shines, superficial, The Eye
«We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, extremes, related, related to, superfluous, to that