Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Change Quotes, Anchors Quotes

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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Power and speed be hands and feet.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

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The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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The health of the eye demands a horizon.

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Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

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The religions we call false were once true.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

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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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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

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