Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Church Quotes, Might Quotes

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

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A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

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But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

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For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever.

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

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Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

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Genius is intellect constructive.

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Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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