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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forevermore,... Pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
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 (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The best bribe which London offers today to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers it's perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries! (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd; here once the embattl'd farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, blessing all lands with it's charity (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds and see prismatic dewdrops; but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
What is excellent, as God lives, is permanent; hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, heart's love will meet thee again (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist, can your lurking thought surprise, and interpret your device,... All things wait for and divine him, how shall I dare to malign him? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)