Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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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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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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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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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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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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The earth laughs in flowers.