Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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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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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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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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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
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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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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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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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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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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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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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Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.
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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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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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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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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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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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We boil at different degrees.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.