Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wind Quotes, Wings Quotes

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

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The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

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A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

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Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

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Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

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For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

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The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

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The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

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