Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Order Quotes

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

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A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

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A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

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Be an opener of doors

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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.

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There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

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