Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Self Reliance Quotes, Degrees Quotes

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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All mankind love a lover.

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Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

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We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

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There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

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Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

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Love is the essence of God.

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Concentration is the secret of srength.

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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

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The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

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