Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Years Quotes, Stones Quotes

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

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Character teaches above our wills.

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A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

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Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

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It is time to be old To take in sail.

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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

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The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

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The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

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