Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Roots Quotes

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

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What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

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Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

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When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

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Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

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Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

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Live, let live, and help live

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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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The eye of prudence may never shut.

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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

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Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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