QUOTES by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end. […] It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality.
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On stars: Every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.
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There are many beauties; as, of general nature, of the human face and form, of manners, of brain, or method, moral beauty, or beauty of the soul.
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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
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Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
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He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
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Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.
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If you would lift me you must be on higher ground. If you would liberate me you must be free. If you would correct my false view of facts, — hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
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Conversation is a game of circles. In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,—a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,—if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion.
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The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.
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Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
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