Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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Life is our dictionary.

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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

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The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

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Each mind has its own method.

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

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Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

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No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

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Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

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The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

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The only prudence in life is concentration.

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

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