![]() There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.Walter Savage Landor, from The Dial, XII.Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.Walter Savage Landor, from The Dial, XII (1841).Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.Letter to Thomas Carlyle (30 October 1841).I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style.He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution.The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.David M Robinson, Beacon Press (2004), p. The Divinity College Address (1838) : full title "An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1838", given at Harvard Divinity School : as contained in The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings, Emerson, ed.The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.1827 journal entry reproduced in Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), p. ![]() It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. 1.8 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.1.7.1 Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883).1.5.2 Life and Letters in New England (1867). ![]()
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