Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Voice Quotes, Solitude Quotes

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

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Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

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

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