Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Perfect Quotes, Elements Quotes

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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Some people are born very far from home.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

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The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

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