discovered. The circulation of blood, the weight of air, the conduction of heat, the laws of motion were unknown; the common pump was inexplicable; there were no clocks, no thermometers; no general gravitation; the world was five thousand years old; spirits moved the planets; alchemy, magic, astrology imposed on everyone’s belief.”
R W EMERSON – “Peace has its victories, but it lakes a brave man to win them.”
R W EMERSON – “The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
R W EMERSON -“We are coaxed, flattered and duped from morn to eve, from birth to death; and where is the old eye that ever saw through the deception? The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps… Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
R W EMERSON – “When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
R W EMERSON –“A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.”
R W EMERSON –“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
R W EMERSON –“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
R W EMERSON –“Bad times have a scientific value. There are occasions, a good learner would not
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