Date: August 31, 1837
"But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: August 31, 1837
"The world, — this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: August 31, 1837
"But he, in his private observatory, cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars of the human mind, which as yet no man has thought of as such, — watching days and months, sometimes, for a few facts; correcting still his old records; — must relinquish display and immediate fame."
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Date: August 31, 1837
"For this self-trust, the reason is deeper than can be fathomed, — darker than can be enlightened."
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Date: w. 1821, 1840
"Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance."
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Date: 1845
"Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness."
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