Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

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A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

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Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

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You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

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Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

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A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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