Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
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There is always safety in valor.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
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We boil at different degrees.