Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Every wall is a door.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.