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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.»
«Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.»
«In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.»
«Flowers are the earth laughing.»
«I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.»
«It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.»
«Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.»
«One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never»
«Knowledge is the only elegance.»
«Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.»