Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Names Quotes

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

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But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

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All high beauty has a moral element in it.

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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

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For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

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The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

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

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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

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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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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

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