Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Selfish Quotes

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

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If the colleges were better, if they had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

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A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

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Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

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