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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
Ralph Waldo Emerson