Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

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

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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

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You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

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Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.

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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

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The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

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Never read any book that is not a year old.

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