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Ralph_W_Emerson

  1. I do not like to see a sword at man's side. If it threaten man, it threatens me. A company of soldiers is an offensive spectacle. about 15 hours ago via Twitterrific for Mac
  2. A page which is tedious to me today, tomorrow becomes precious because I read in a book that is precious to another man readingemerson.com/2012/06/03/a-p… 12:38 AM Jun 3rd via Twitterrific for Mac
  3. In the woods this afternoon, the bud on the dry twig appeared to reach out unto & prophesy an eternity to come. 11:42 AM Jun 2nd via Twitterrific for Mac
  4. Let him not wrong the truth & his own experience by too stiffly standing on the cold & proud doctrine of ... readingemerson.com/2012/06/02/let… 6:53 AM Jun 2nd via Twitterrific for Mac
  5. I feel a cabinet in my mind unlocked by each of these new interests readingemerson.com/2012/06/01/i-f… 3:13 AM Jun 1st via Twitterrific for Mac
  6. I greet you at the beginning of a great career - Happy birthday to Walt Whitman amazon.com/gp/product/019… 2:35 PM May 31st via Twitterrific for Mac
  7. It is as hard to get the right tone as to say good things. One indicates character the other intellect. 1:22 AM May 31st via Twitterrific for Mac
  8. Nothing in nature has the softness of darkness readingemerson.com/2012/05/30/not… 12:48 AM May 30th via Twitterrific for Mac
  9. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Zen Buddhism. Is there a connection? Not directly, but many similarities. readingemerson.com/2011/07/10/eme… 12:10 AM May 29th via Twitterrific for Mac
  10. The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, and the eyes often say one thing, & the tongues, another readingemerson.com/2012/05/29/the… 11:34 PM May 28th via Twitterrific for Mac
  11. A dangler is a man out of place and every man is sometimes a dangler. 5:18 AM May 28th via Twitterrific for Mac
  12. In conversation never intimate that you ever was sick or ever shall be readingemerson.com/2012/05/28/in-… 1:01 AM May 28th via Twitterrific for Mac
  13. How idle this curiosity about other people's estimate of you: how idle this discontent at remaining unknown readingemerson.com/2012/05/27/how… 6:39 AM May 27th via Twitterrific for Mac
  14. Art seeks not nature but the ideal which nature herself strives after. 10:19 AM May 26th via Twitterrific for Mac
  15. It is the right economy of time to do nothing by halves, nothing to show, nothing perfunctorily readingemerson.com/2012/05/26/it-… 1:09 AM May 26th via Twitterrific for Mac
  16. In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. 5:10 AM May 25th via Twitterrific for Mac
  17. Happy Birthday Waldo readingemerson.com/2012/05/25/hap… On this day in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. 12:14 AM May 25th via Twitterrific for Mac
  18. The event of death is always astounding; our philosophy never reaches, never possesses it readingemerson.com/2012/05/24/the… 3:35 AM May 24th via Twitterrific for Mac
  19. Beauty is a ticket of admission to all spectacles, to all hospitality readingemerson.com/2012/05/23/bea… 1:22 AM May 23rd via Twitterrific for Mac
  20. It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. 7:14 AM May 22nd via Twitterrific for Mac
  • Name Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Location Concord, Massachusetts
  • Web http://www.readin...
  • Bio An individualist, idealist, independent thinker and the leading mind behind Transcendentalism. http://www.readingemerson.com
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