Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We find in life exactly what we put into it

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Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

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Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

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There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

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All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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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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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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