Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, House Quotes, Heaven Quotes

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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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

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In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

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Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

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Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

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All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

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