Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Death Quotes, Sight Quotes

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

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Genius appeals to the future.

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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

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Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again.

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This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

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The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

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If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

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