Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Animal Quotes, Light Quotes

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

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A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

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War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

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