Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Paradise Quotes, Surprise Quotes

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

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Fear is cruel and mean.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

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No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

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Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

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Music and Wine are one.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.

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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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