Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1843, February 8:
We are all chemists who only know our own gold. Men cast pearls about in large companies where I go, and none but I seems to know that they are pearls.
A cornucopia of elegant excerpts, a collectanea of passages, a florilegium of ideas, a gallimaufry of aperçus, musing flowers of yore, an anthologia of verse (a Parnassus), an omnium gatherum of etymologies and origins, all singled out carefully by hand.
Wackenroder and Tieck, Outpourings of an Art-Loving Friar , tr. Edward Mornin (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1975), 58: [A]ges o...
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