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How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting, and we shall find it was a solitary performance? From Experience, Essays, Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson This

The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think, if we should be rapt away into all that we dream of heaven, and should converse with Gabriel and Uriel, the upper sky would be all

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes. From Nominalist and Realist, Essays, Second

Is it any better, if the student, to avoid this offense and liberalize himself, aims to make a mechanical whole of history, or science, or philosophy, bring a numerical addition of all the facts that fall

The conditions essential to a constructive mind do not appear to be so often combined but that a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time. Yet when we write with ease, and come

We say, I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness for me. We go forth, but cannot find it. It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. From Spiritual Laws from Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson Recently, I hear my own words coming back at

Life alone can impart life and though we should burst we can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable. Spiritual Laws from Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson There is lots of talk about value

Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it in appropriate events. From History, First Series

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Experience, Essays, Second

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. Ralph

A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirit, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world. Ralph Waldo Emerson from Worship, Essays, The Conduct of Life Nothing seems to be as much on everyone's minds as how to create a better world.

It is in vain that we look for genius to reiterate its miracles in the old arts; it is its instinct to find beauty and holiness in new and necessary facts, in the field and roadside, in the shop and mill.

I think we are entitled to here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wealth

Last year I made a commitment to read from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays at least once a day and record my thoughts. Surprisingly, I kept to that commitment and I have decided to continue that commitment

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source Do you have a lot of parties where you are always opening up wine bottles or a lot of champagne? The usual way of doing this is by using the normal hand operated cork screw, but they now make a

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