Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Animal Quotes, Self Reliance Quotes

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

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I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.

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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

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Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

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Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

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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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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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Great men exist that there might be greater men.

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