Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Virtue Quotes

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

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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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There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

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I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

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A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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