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Choose a stream to follow and continue in Read, or shuffle the shelves for another flight.Essays — First Series
Do what you must, not what the crowd thinks; greatness keeps solitude alive.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays — First Series
When true good arrives, it will come by a road no example has walked.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays — First Series
Real friendship is not delicate but the heaviest thing we know—what courage does its solemn law demand of you?
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays — First Series
Give up your will and the child will answer from the same soul—how will that change who you both become?
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays — First Series
When night sings with moonlight and stars spell your secret, how can daylight demand anything?
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays — First Series
Genius reads one thought through a thousand fleeting forms.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays — First Series
A secret fire tells who is trustworthy — not words, but acts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays — First Series
Youthful revolutions often shrink when they meet the furrow of the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays — First Series
The greatness you worship in emperors might dwell in a poor woman—why do we miss the same soul in smaller forms?
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Odyssey
Thrice he sprang to embrace his mother's shade, and each time she slipped away like a dream.
HomerThe Odyssey
They feasted us and then butchered us—he remembers being left to die amid loaded tables and blood.
HomerThe Odyssey
He clung to Ulysses' knees and begged for mercy—insisting he tried to stop the slaughter.
HomerThe Odyssey
Seawater poured from his mouth as he lay half-dead—then he kissed the earth.
HomerEssays — First Series
Walk a winter pine road and the Gothic vault will rise in your mind—what else did builders borrow from the woods?
Ralph Waldo EmersonNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Her cheerful eye turned red with rage—the fatal poison of irresponsible power had already begun its work.
John Chua