Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

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The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

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The first wealth is health.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

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A great man is always willing to be little.

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With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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