Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Heart Quotes, Hands Quotes

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

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The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

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A little integrity is better than any career.

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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

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In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

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Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

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