The true poem is the poet's mind.
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Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has, until he has learned to use that little betterRalph Waldo Emerson
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Platonever enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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
I love thy music, mellow bell,
I love thine iron chime,
To life or death, to heaven or hell,
Which calls the sons of Time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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