Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Song Quotes, Blood Quotes

The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

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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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Isolation must precede true society.

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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

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We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

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As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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We can only obey our own polarity.

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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

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The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

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The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

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