Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Sleep Quotes

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

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As soon as there is life there is danger.

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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

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All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

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Great men exist that there might be greater men.

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A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

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We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

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The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

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