Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Wish Quotes

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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Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

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The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

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Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

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Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

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Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

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