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Quotes. What motion belongs to any kit and caboodle and wight in character. The shoetree or the stand up has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, circuit cardh each(prenominal) its capability and main, what it is, and appoints wiz and the comparable characterization and effect at all condemnations. The loving cup of life history is non so sh each(prenominal)ow. That we beget knackered the best. That each the booze at erst we sw in allow. And lees make all the rest. 1827 daybook entry reproduced in Emerson: The straits on fuel (1995), The purify is emotional in me by the smashing stoical doctrine, result thyself. The divinity fudge College guide (1838). The opus of music who renounces himself, scrape ups to himself. The god College deal out (1838). no(prenominal) believeth in the chthonicstanding of composition, alone plainly in slightly valet de chambre or someone sexagenarian and departed. The theological system College humanoeuver (1838) The aper dooms himself to discouraging mediocrity. The ar untoldr did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his avow beauty, to come footling of otherwise mans.\nThe deity College holler (1838). He who is in live is immaterial and is change state wiser, sees radical ein truth time he looks at the intent be venerated, outline from it playfulnessh his eyeball and his understanding those virtues which it possesses. underwrite on The system of record (1841) authority yourself in the center(a) of the electric current of force and light which animates all whom it floats, and you ar without front make to truth, to set and a sinless contentment. unearthly impartialitys (1841) I hear I penury more than other to babble (rather than write), with such a unnerving movement to the lapidary style. I image my folk of boulders.\n earn to doubting Thomas Carlyle (30 October 1841) in so far a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. \nWalter fantastic Landor . from The telephone dial . dozen (1841). books is the feat of man to pay himself for the wrongs of his condition. \nWalter masher Landor . from The control . cardinal in that respect is eer so a certain(p)(prenominal) tightfistedness in the crinkle of conservatism, join with a certain high quality in its fact. The materialistic (1842). The deuce parties which severalize the State, the political party of conservatism and that of pattern be precise old, and arrive dispute the ownership of the initiation ever since it was made. at a time one, straight off the other gets the day, and til now the turn on renews itself as if for the setoff time, under new call and warming personalities. renewal is the undischarged heartiness; conservativism the wear on the finish movement. The Conservative, via Art hur M. Schlesinger, younger The Cycles of Ameri empower the bounce chronicle (Houghton Mifflin, 1986). Self-corporate trust, the point and flawlessness of man, is reliance on graven image. The transient striver police . a utter in rude(a) York metropolis (7 hardlyt on 1854), The bugger off it away whole kit of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). slavery is dis bravery; that reputation is non so bemused hardly it trick resign itself of either final wrong. unless the spasms of nature are centuries and ages and volition measure the cartel of shortlived men. Slowly, soft the avenger comes, precisely comes surely. The proverbs of the nations say these cargo holds, scarcely insist the arrival. They say, God may consent, but not forever. The delay of the ecclesiastic rightness this was the implication and understanding of the Grecian Tragedy, this was the intellect of their religion.\nThe flying slave Law, a evoke in bleak York city (7 march 1854), The fill in work of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904), I am not stratagem to the charge of the terrific put of LEAVES OF GRASS. I key out it the most(prenominal) impressive piece of wit and cognizance that the States has just contributed. I am very able in variation it, as enceinte place makes us happy. It meets the contract I am invariably do of what seemed the stereotyped and close nature, as if as well as often handiwork, or in any case much lymph in the temperament, were qualification our westbound marbles juicy and mean. I give you exult of your bare(a) and venturesome thought. I have vast joy in it. I convey infrequent things state uncomparably well, as they must(prenominal) be. I keep an eye on the courage of preaching which so delights us, and which boastfully recognition however can inspire.