Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Peace Quotes

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

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If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

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It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

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