Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Essentials Quotes, Body Quotes

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

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Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

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The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

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Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

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One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

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Live, let live, and help live

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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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Language is fossil Poetry.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

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In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

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Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

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Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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