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«In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
ice skate, ice skating, skate, skates, skating
«A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works, and the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
astronomy, cultivated, flowering, geology, wise to
«A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill»
«The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization,
Coaches and Coaching,
Mankind
| Keywords:
coach
«Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
concealed, Crime and Punishment, ripens, unsuspected
«Culture is one thing and varnish is another.»
«Obedience alone gives the right to command»
«Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Growing up
| Keywords:
Cicero, forgetful, Libraries, meek
«Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing /to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.»
«'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Appreciation
| Keywords:
census, estimate, pedantry, square mile, square miles, Times Square
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