Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Nature Quotes

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

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There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

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The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

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I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

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Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

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Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

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Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

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No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

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