Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Eye Quotes

"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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Necessity does everything well.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

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'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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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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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

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America is another name for opportunity.

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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