Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Perception Quotes, Mind Quotes

How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

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Doing well is a result of doing good.

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

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The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

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Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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