Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Mean Quotes, Wind Quotes

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

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By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

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