Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Summer Quotes, Sweet Quotes

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

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No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

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We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

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Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

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

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We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

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A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

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