Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Eye Quotes

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

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The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

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A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

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Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

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We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

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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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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

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Thou art to me a delicious torment.

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Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

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