Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Past Quotes, Dry Bones Quotes

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

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I like people who can do things

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Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

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Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

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Souls are not saved in bundles.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

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With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

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So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

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