The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, lecture, Nov. 18, 1862
We sink to rise.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
All successful men have agreed in one thing--they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things. A belief in causality, or strict connection between every trifle and the principle of being, and, in consequence, belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing--characterizes all valuable minds, and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one. The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
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