Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Dream Quotes, Sadness Quotes

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

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Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

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An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

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All high beauty has a moral element in it.

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

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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

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What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

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The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

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Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

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All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

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