Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson More Quotes From Ralph Waldo Emerson The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. Ralph Waldo Emerson eye leadership men A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. Ralph Waldo Emerson acorns men facts For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. Ralph Waldo Emerson taxes taxation benefits I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. Ralph Waldo Emerson corn love children There is a tendency for things to right themselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson tendencies mistake People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. Ralph Waldo Emerson divorce arrogance people Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? Ralph Waldo Emerson need-sleep volume needs There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. Ralph Waldo Emerson passionate parent book Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. Ralph Waldo Emerson democracies-have freedom government Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. Ralph Waldo Emerson echoes sides friendship Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places. Ralph Waldo Emerson metamorphosis transition destiny People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. Ralph Waldo Emerson sarcastic writing funny I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain. Ralph Waldo Emerson stars plato heart A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation. Ralph Waldo Emerson magnificent creation may The student is to read history actively and not passively. Ralph Waldo Emerson students Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind. Ralph Waldo Emerson transcendentalism saddles mankind I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. Ralph Waldo Emerson childhood youth games Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence. Ralph Waldo Emerson influence stones beautiful I unsettle all things. Ralph Waldo Emerson all-things Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. Ralph Waldo Emerson opinion tomorrow time
