Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Garden Quotes

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

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Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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Our distrust is very expensive.

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Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

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How much finer things are in composition than alone.

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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

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Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

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Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

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