Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Heaven Quotes

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

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Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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A friend is the hope of the heart.

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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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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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Revolutions go not backward.

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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.

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But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

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