Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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'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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All diseases run into one, old age.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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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.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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Nature hates calculators.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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Children are all foreigners.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
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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'.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.