Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Memories Quotes, Mind Quotes

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

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A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

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The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

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An empire is an immense egotism.

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As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

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To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

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The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

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I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

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Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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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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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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