Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Garden Quotes

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

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Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

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We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

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The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

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Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

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Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.

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