QUOTES by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. […] It is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions, and health of mind by the laws of the intellect.
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
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We are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man’s life, and embellish it by courage, wisdom and unity.
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It is fit for serene days, and graceful gifts, and country rambles, but also for rough roads and hard fare, shipwreck, poverty, and persecution.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Friendship is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
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Circles, like the soul, are never-ending and turn round and round without a stop
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Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe. It will speak, though you were dumb, by its own miraculous organ. It will flow out of your actions, your manners, and your face. It will bring you friendships. It will impledge you to truth by the love and expectation of generous minds.
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds… A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely… but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
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A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will come out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming.
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When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
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