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41 " The life of truth is cold. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
42 " I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
43 " Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. "
44 " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Emerson: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
45 " If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. "
46 " The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. "
47 " To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. "
48 " At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. "
49 " The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn "
50 " For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. "
51 " Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. "
52 " The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Nature
53 " The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. "
54 " To fill the hour──that is happiness. "
55 " Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Spiritual Laws
56 " Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. "
57 " Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. "
58 " If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him. "
59 " Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest. "
60 " The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;And, looking over the hills, I mournThe darling who shall not return. "