Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Humanity Quotes

I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

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The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

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Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

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All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

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Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

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