Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Mean Quotes, Use Quotes

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

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For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

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How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

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Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

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I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

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The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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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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Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

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