Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Running Quotes

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

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Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

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Every reform was once a private opinion.

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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

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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

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The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

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Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

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Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.

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Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.

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The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

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That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

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The force of character is cumulative.

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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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