Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Self Quotes, Soul Quotes

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

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Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

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The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

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