Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

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Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

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The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

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The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

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

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Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

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No book was ever written down by any but itself.

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How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

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The shot heard round the world.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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