Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Is Quotes

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

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Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

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Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

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Look out! Behind you!

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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

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Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

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Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

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Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

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

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Society is a hospital of incurables.

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We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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