On being asked, Whence is the flower?
(The Rhodora)
More Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest virtue is always against the law.
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