Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Summer Quotes, Song Quotes

The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

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What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

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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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Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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Every natural action is graceful.

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For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

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But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

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A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

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The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

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The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

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