Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Humility Quotes

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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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

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