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Second Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many…
- If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe…
- If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course…
- Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the…
- The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
- Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark…
- A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence…
- Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or…
- Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
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