Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Is Quotes

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

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The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

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For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

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The world we live in is but thickened light.

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There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

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Labor is God's education.

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.

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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

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