Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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You cannot make a cheap palace.

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Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.

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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

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You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

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But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

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But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

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Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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