Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Song Quotes, Bird Quotes

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

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People who know how to act are never preachers.

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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

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The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

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The instinct of the people is right.

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Real action is in silent moments.

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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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Self trust is the essence of heroism.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

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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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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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The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

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The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

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Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

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The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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