Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Government Quotes

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

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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 are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

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The religions we call false were once true.

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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

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Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

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Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

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I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

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