And what greater calamity can ...

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of
worship.

The silence that accepts merit...

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.

He is great who is what he is ...

He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.

Nature never sends a great man...

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.

The bigger they are, the furth...

The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.

Fear always springs from ignor...

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Chide me not, laborious band!<...

Chide me not, laborious band!
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
Goes home loaded with a thought.

The April winds are magical,

The April winds are magical,
And thrill our tuneful frames;
The garden-walks are passional
To bachelors and dames.

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I do not see how a barbarous c...

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we
must get rid of freedom.

The sea returning day by day

The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart
Till these echoes be choked with snows
Or over the town blue ocean flows.

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Behold the Sea,
The opa...

Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not.

A man is the whole encyclopedi...

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

There is properly no history, ...

There is properly no history, only biography.

Only an inventor knows how to ...

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

The studious class are their o...

The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale,
their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without
sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger,
and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they
entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and
nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society
to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of
proportion in its presentment, of just

When I have attempted to join ...

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it
proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service
like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel
you, and delight in you all the time.

A person's life is limited but...

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless.
I want to devote my limited life to serving the people
limitlessly.

Had I but written as many odes...

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I
have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred
blessings on me.

The best way to find yourself ...

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service
of others.

So nigh is grandeur to our dus...

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can.