Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Greatness Quotes

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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The eye is the best of artists.

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

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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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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

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But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

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Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

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Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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