Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.
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Blessed are those who have no talent!
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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.
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You cannot make a cheap palace.
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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.
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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
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Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.
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A man of no conversation should smoke.
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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
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The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
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All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
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In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
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Every reform was once a private opinion.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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The borrower runs in his own debt.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.
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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.
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He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.
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