Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Class Quotes, Mind Quotes

No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

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And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

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That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.

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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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