Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Children Quotes, Men Quotes

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

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Labor is God's education.

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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

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Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

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Women see through Claude Lorraines.

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

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A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

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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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It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

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