Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

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The people are to be taken in very small doses.

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Isolation must precede true society.

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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

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The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

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There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

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Accuracy is essential to beauty.

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Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

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The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

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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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To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

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