Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Hands Quotes

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

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Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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