Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Bible Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

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The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

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All high beauty has a moral element in it.

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In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

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Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

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If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

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Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

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You can take better care of your secret than another can.

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