Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Dream Quotes, Eye Quotes

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

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The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

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I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

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We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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