Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Two Quotes, History Quotes

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

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It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

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"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

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Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

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The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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We walk alone in the world.

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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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