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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.7, Editora Dracaena

He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.501, Рипол Классик

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

Nature tells every secret once.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3229, Delphi Classics

The world is his who can see through its pretension.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.71, Penguin

Tart, cathartic virtue.

On Plutarch's Lives, in 'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.25, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.285, Harvard University Press

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.454, Penguin

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”