Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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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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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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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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Thou animated torrid-zone.
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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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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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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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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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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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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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We boil at different degrees.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.