Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspiration Quotes, Few Words Quotes

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

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Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

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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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Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

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And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

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Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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