Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Sadness Quotes

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

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Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

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There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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