Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes

• “Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammerin...”
• “At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickne...”
• “Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as wou...”
• “I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose ...”
• “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”