American - Author | April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
John Burroughs
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and is heard but a few yards. It is only upon dry, seasoned timber, freed of its bark, that he beats his reveille to spring and wooes his mate.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
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I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first!
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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