Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Heart Quotes, Men Quotes

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

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...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

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Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

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The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

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Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

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Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

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Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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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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For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

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