Ralph Waldo Emerson: A mollusk is a cheap edition with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelv

A mollusk is a cheap edition with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, d — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mollusk is a cheap edition with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a jealous mistress. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusio — Leonardo da Vinci
Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, — Alexander Pope
What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh. — Quoted by DeFoe
Nature has no more esteem or care for the seed of man than for the ant — Giacomo Leopardi
I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any op — Albert Einstein
Religion is the name, surely, which we give to the invocative appeal of humanity — Alice Bailey
In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ice that remains in the shade is frozen It saw not the brilliance of my glow — Rumi