Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt it, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not. My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Life is our dictionary.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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The days .... come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.