Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Music Quotes

The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

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The finest wits have their sediment.

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Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

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Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

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Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

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

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