Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Heart Quotes

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

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It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

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America means opportunity, freedom, power.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

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The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

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Labor is God's education.

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

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The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

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