Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Children Quotes, Order Quotes

The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

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Power and speed be hands and feet.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

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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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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

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A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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Art is a jealous mistress.

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Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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