Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thoughtful Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

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Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

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Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

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Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

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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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Never read any book that is not a year old.

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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

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