Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Children Quotes, Father Quotes

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

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

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Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

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The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

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The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

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Every word was once a poem.

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

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