Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Liberty Quotes

Liberty is a slow fruit.

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

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Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

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By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

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The instinct of the people is right.

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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

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The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

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Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

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Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

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