Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Nature Quotes

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

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Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

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The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

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The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

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Poverty consist in feeling poor.

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

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For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

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The best part of health is fine disposition

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

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