Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Shining Quotes

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

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The reality is more excellent than the report.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

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The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

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Men are respectable only as they respect.

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

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The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

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This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

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The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

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For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

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