Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Every wall is a door.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow'.