Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Fall Quotes

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

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Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

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Who are a little wise the best fools be.

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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

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When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

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The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

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The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

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