Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Causes Quotes

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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The only prudence in life is concentration.

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The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.

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All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

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The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

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Find the journey's end in every step.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

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The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

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It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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