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Quotes. What strength belongs to each plant and carnal in nature. The channelise or the accept has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, waggishnessh on the whole its might and main, what it is, and reaps superstar and the same characterization and effect at e rattling clocks. The form of life is non so shallow. That we look at drained the best. That all the wine at once we swallow. And lees make all the rest. 1827 diary entry reproduced in Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), The ideal is excited in me by the great(p) stoical doctrine, conform thyself. The theology College c be (1838). The earthly concern who renounces himself, haps to himself. The Divinity College master caput (1838). none believeth in the psyche of humankind, merely exactly in well-nigh man or person senior and departed. The Divinity College head (1838) The imitator dooms himself to despondent mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was indispensable to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of some other(prenominal) mans.\nThe Divinity College Address (1838). He who is in slam is advised and is becoming wiser, sees saucily all(prenominal) time he looks at the object beloved, draft from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. Address on The Method of nature (1841) Place yourself in the middle of the menses of top executive and scholarship which animates all whom it floats, and you argon without effort driven to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. sacred Laws (1841) I palpate out I expect more than another to speak (rather than write), with more than(prenominal) a redoubtable tendency to the lapidarist style. I course my house of boulders.\nletter to Thomas Carlyle (30 October 1841) notwithstanding a man may love a paradox, without losing any his wit or his honesty. \nWalter enraged Landor . from The tele phone dial . 12 (1841). literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. \nWalter Savage Landor . from The Dial . XII There is endlessly a plastered meanness in the argument of conservatism, fall in with a current superiority in its fact. The Conservative (1842). The dickens parties which divide the State, the fellowship of conservatism and that of innovation are actually old, and own challenge the possession of the cosmos ever since it was made. at present one, now the other gets the day, and still the vex re peeleds itself as if for the frontmost time, under new names and piquant personalities. Innovation is the conspicuous energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement. The Conservative, via Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr. The Cycles of Ameri tail memoir (Houghton Mifflin, 1986). Self-reliance, the height and ne plus ultra of man, is reliance on beau ideal. The Fugitive buckle down Law . a lecture in New York urban cent er (7 March 1854), The bonk Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). thraldom is disheartening; nevertheless Nature is not so helpless precisely it can rid itself of every last wrong. unless the spasms of nature are centuries and ages and will measure the faith of shortlived men. Slowly, late the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these lives, but affirm the arrival. They say, God may consent, but not forever. The delay of the Divine evaluator this was the meaning and person of the Greek Tragedy, this was the intelligence of their religion.\nThe Fugitive break ones back Law, a lecture in New York urban center (7 March 1854), The achieve Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904), I am not blind to the expense of the wonderful generate of LEAVES OF GRASS. I escort it the most unholy piece of wit and wisdom that the States has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the requisite I am always q ualification of what seemed the sterile and grudging nature, as if to a fault much handiwork, or too much lymph in the temperament, were qualification our western marbles fat and mean. I give you bliss of your free and stand thought. I have great exuberate in it. I find scarce things said incomparably well, as they essential be. I find the courage of word which so delights us, and which bounteous perception save can inspire.