Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Fall Quotes

I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be.

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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

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Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

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He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

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As soon as there is life there is danger.

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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

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Do your thing, and I shall know you.

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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

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No man can have society upon his own terms.

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Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

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