Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Nature Quotes

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

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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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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

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The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

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All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

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It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

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