Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Country Quotes

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

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That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

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I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

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The reality is more excellent than the report.

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Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

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It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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