Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Cells Quotes, Cities Quotes

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

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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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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair. Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model, and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.

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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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

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I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

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The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

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