Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Years Quotes, Stones Quotes

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

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We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

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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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It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

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