Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

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Keep your friendships in repair.

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

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The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

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Thoughts rule the world.

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The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

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The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

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What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

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Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

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