Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Miracle Quotes

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

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It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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