Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Eye Quotes

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

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