Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Causes Quotes, Influence Quotes

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

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I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

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Doing well is a result of doing good.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

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