Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Men Quotes

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

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Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

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Nature is saturated with Deity.

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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

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All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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Money often costs too much.

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

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A man is a god in ruins.

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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

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