Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Strong Quotes, Latin Quotes

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?

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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

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Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

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

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If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

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Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

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Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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The true ship is the ship builder.

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