Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Religious Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

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All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

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I unsettle all things.

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

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Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

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Science finds it methods.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

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If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

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