Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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