Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

No one suspects the days to be gods.

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Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

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Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

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A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

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