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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men Man

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mistake

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson