1841 · Skopia

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Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.2

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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.1

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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.0

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Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

Essay · Philosophical literature

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.8

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 3.7

Personal journal

The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

1841

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

It was the remark of a Roman consul in an early period of that celebrated Republic that a most striking contrast was observable in the conduct of candidates for offices of power and trust before and after obtaining them, they seldom carrying out in the latter case the pledges and promises made in the former.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

As long as the love of power is a dominant passion of the human bosom, and as long as the understandings of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices, so long will the liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison · 1841

★ 3.6

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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.2

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.2

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.1

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Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.1

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Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.0

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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 2.0

Lecture

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Conservative · 1841

★ 2.0

National anthem · Song

Germany above all.

August Heinrich Hoffman

1841

★ 1.9

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