Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Path Quotes

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

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To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

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The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

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Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

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When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

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The beautiful is never plentiful.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

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Where there is no vision a people perish.

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

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