Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Greek Quotes

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

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The poem is a confession of faith.

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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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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There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

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Men in all ways are better than they seem.

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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

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It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

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I am a part and parcel of God.

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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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

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The sun shines today also.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

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