Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Nature hates calculators.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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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.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.