Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Stars Quotes, Writing Quotes

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

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Do what you're afraid to do.

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I am become a transparent eyeball.

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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

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For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

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The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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

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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man; she is immensely rich, he is welcome to her entire goods, which he speaks no word, only leaves over doors ajar, hall, store room, & cellar. He may do as he will: if he takes her hint & uses her goods, she speaks no word; if he blunders & starves, she says nothing.

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