Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Children Quotes, Eye Quotes

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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Earth endures; Stars abide.

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Calmness is always godlike.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

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Love is the essence of God.

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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

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We find in life exactly what we put into it

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

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In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

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