Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Twilight Quotes, Sky Quotes

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

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Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

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The true poem is the poet's mind.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

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The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

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The religions we call false were once true.

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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

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In the woods we return to reason and faith.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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There is no God dare wrong a worm.

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Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.

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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

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