Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Happy Quotes, Character Quotes

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

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In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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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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A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

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The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

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I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

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If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

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"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

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

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