"How much better when the whole land..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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“Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.”
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.”
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“Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.”
“No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.”
“Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.”
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“Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?”
“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”
“The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.”