Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Evil Quotes, Cold Quotes

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

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All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

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There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

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[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

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This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

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Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

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Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

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