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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.261, Harvard University Press

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2972, Delphi Classics

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.18

A nation never falls but by suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.59, Harvard University Press

The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Lectures and Orations”, p.353

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2582, Delphi Classics

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.112, Courier Corporation

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.32, Penguin

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.24, Penguin

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.85, Penguin

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.13

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.20, Library of America

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.169, Harvard University Press

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.209, Jazzybee Verlag

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.