Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fall Quotes, Eye Quotes

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

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English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

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Blessed are those who have no talent!

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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

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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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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

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The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

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The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

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It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

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Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

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The field cannot be seen from within the field.

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

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