Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Character Quotes, Men Quotes

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

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Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

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The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

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If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

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Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

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Immitation is suicide.

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The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

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Genius is intellect constructive.

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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

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Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

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'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

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