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"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes" and other Quotations by Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous American thinker, poet and author. He was born in 1803. Emerson died in 1882 in Concord, Massachusetts.

Emerson is remembered as one leader of the Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a well-regarded writer and is still often quoted. We have arranged here several of his more famous quotations for your pleasure.

The Famous Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one...

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Love and you shall be loved.

Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

U.S. Censorship and Art?

Hey everyone. I have to do a paper, presentation, and casebook on a U.S. court case involving some form of censorship - particularly with freedom of speech. It should be recent and it has to involve some sort of art form (art, sculpture, music, television, movies, etc.)

Any examples? Thank you so much!

espionage act of 1917, prevented bad things being said about the armed forces or about the government. sorry idk anything that restricted art but im sure its somewhere out there...ill look around

Researchers link patterns seen in spider silk, melodies (MIT)

Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a
scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the
physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of a melody, proving
that the structure of each relates to its function in an equivalent way.

The step-by-step comparison begins with the primary building blocks of each
item — an amino acid and a sound wave — and moves up to the level of a beta
sheet nanocomposite (the secondary structure of a protein consisting of
repeated hierarchical patterns) and a musical riff (a repeated pattern of
notes or chords). The study explains that structural patterns are directly
related to the functional properties of lightweight strength in the spider
silk and, in the riff, sonic tension that creates an emotional response in the
listener.

While likening spider silk to musical composition may appear to be more
novelty than breakthrough, the methodology behind it represents a new approach
to comparing research findings from disparate scientific fields. Such
analogies could help engineers develop materials that make use of the
repeating patterns of simple building blocks found in many biological
materials that, like spider silk, are lightweight yet extremely failure-
resistant. ...

MIT

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