Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Diversity Quotes, Soul Quotes

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

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It is defeat which educates us.

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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

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Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

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Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

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When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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