“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”
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“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
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“When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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