Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Character Quotes

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

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The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

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Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

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Fate is unpenetrated causes.

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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

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