Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hope Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

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Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

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We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

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Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

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Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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The education of the will is the object of our existence.

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

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What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

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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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