Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Moon Quotes, Journey Quotes

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

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There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

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The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

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What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

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Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

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But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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All science is transcendental or else passes away.

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Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

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Beauty rests on necessities.

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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

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