Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thoughtful Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

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The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

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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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The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

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What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

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When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

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A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

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That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

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When half-gods go The gods arrive.

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