Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Perfect Quotes

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

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Our expenses are all for conformity.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

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The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

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Man's life is a progress, not a station.

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A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

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The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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