Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Memories Quotes, Clouds Quotes

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

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An empire is an immense egotism.

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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Imitation cannot go above its model.

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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

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All history is biography.

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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

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Life is a search after power.

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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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