Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Nature Quotes

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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We never touch but at points.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

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You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

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The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

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Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

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It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

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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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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

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The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

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