Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Stars Quotes, Wings Quotes

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

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The soul knows no persons.

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

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As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

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...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

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The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

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The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

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This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.

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The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

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Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

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Everything good is on the highway.

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