"What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that di...

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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates o...
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
"The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
"I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in w...