Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Land Quotes, Long Quotes

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

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The people are to be taken in very small doses.

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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

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Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.

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Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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