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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.136, Harvard University Press

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2440, Delphi Classics

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

We walk alone in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.125, Harvard University Press

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.188, Penguin

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.430, Рипол Классик

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.146, Harvard University Press

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.223

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.106, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.161

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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