Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hero Quotes, Soul Quotes

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

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The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

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When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

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All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

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We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

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