Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Mother Quotes, Nature Quotes

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

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There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

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Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

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God is Unity, but always works in variety.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

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What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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