Emerson

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    And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    And, shrilling from the solar course,
    Or from fruit of chemic force,
    Procession of a soul in matter,
    Or the speeding change of water,
    Or out of the good of evil born,
    Came Uriel’s voice of cherub scorn,
    And a blush tinged the upper sky,
    And the gods shook, they knew not why.
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)