Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Winter Quotes, Snow Quotes

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

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Society has no bribe for me.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

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Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

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Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

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That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

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For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.

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Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

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The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

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The poem is a confession of faith.

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If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

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