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  • Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?
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    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sunset Quotes
  • It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Islands Quotes