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What must I do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It

There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every

Really , all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, and we are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things

I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms. From Art, Essays First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson Thought this image

A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism. Today I learned about a university professor who argued that Thomas Jefferson's slaves were responsible for their own enslavement. I am skeptical

There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court who was told he might be released if he would pay his fine. He had no money, he had no friends, but he took his flute out

How much of human life is lost in waiting! let him not make his fellow-creatures wait. How many words and promises are promises of conversation! From Prudence, Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key to every man is his thought, sturdy and defying though he looks, has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a

These past few months, as I find a particular aesthetic emphasis on specific input to AI GANs - old master's works, generally Western ideals - I start to wonder if the body of knowledge in this field is

Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws. She keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them. She arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and

It is in vain that we look for genius 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. From Art, Essays First

"Ah!" said a brave painter to me, thinking on these things. "If a man has failed you will find he has dreamed instead of working. There is no way to success in our art but to take off your

What is the use of the concert of the false and disunited? There can be no concert in two, where there is no concert in one. When the individual is not individual, but dual; when his thoughts look one

I have learned that I cannot dispose of other people's facts; but I possess such a key to my own, as persuades me against all their denials, that they also have a key to theirs. A sympathetic person is

When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended and books are a weariness, - he has always the resource to live. From The American

Wit is cheap, and anger is cheap, but if you cannot argue or explain yourself to the other party, cleave to the truth, against me, against thee, and you gain a situation from which you cannot be dislodged.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. ... As we are, so we do; and as we do, so it is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes; cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not

What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself, and that the sun borrows its beams?" From Illusions, Essays, The Conduct of

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. From Art, Essays, First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson Earlier in the essay,

All our science lacks a human side. From Beauty, Essays, Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson For at least as long as I have been eligible to vote, health and health care is on the minds of politicians