Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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Nature abhors the old.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

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Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

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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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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

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With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.

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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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

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