Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

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The true ship is the ship builder.

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Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.

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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

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Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

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