Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Stars Quotes

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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Travel is a fools paradise.

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Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

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Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

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The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

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Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

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Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

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