Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Morning Quotes, Light Quotes

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

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When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

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Our distrust is very expensive.

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The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

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There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

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Revolutions go not backward.

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I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

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