Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, People Quotes

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

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Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

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Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

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Life is a series of surprises.

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