Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Years Quotes, Two Quotes

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

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Nature is upheld by antagonism.

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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

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Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

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None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

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The dearest events are summer-rain.

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Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

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