Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Dark Quotes

So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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A friend is the hope of the heart.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

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Our strength grows out of our weakness.

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Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

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Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

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The key to every man is his thought.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

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Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

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