Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Death Quotes

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

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Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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If this is death, it is easier than life.

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The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

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Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

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A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

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Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

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The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

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We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

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Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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