Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hope Quotes, Blow Quotes

To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

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In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

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