Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Creative Quotes, Delight Quotes

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

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Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

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Lose yourself in nature and find peace

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I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

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It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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