Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Independence Quotes

He only is rich who owns the day.

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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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All science is transcendental or else passes away.

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Genius is power, talent is applicability.

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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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Character is that which can do without success.

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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

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Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

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