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My son, a perfect little boy ...

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Why should not we have a poet...

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

To the body and mind which ha...

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Behind every individual close...

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

In the Fiji islands, it appea...

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

If a man lose his balance, an...

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

The people are to be taken in...

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Nature wishes that woman shou...

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Money is the representative o...

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

The power of a man increases ...

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Many a man had taken the firs...

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

The way to mend the bad world...

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

He that can heroically endure...

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

I shun father and mother and ...

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Talent may frolic and juggle;...

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

But whoso is heroic must find...

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

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 5320 quotes

All successful men have agree...

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

A man builds a fine house; an...

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Every actual State is corrupt...

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....