Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Garden Quotes

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

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Accuracy is essential to beauty.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

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

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No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

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Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

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All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

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