Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Goodness Quotes

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

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Every reform was once a private opinion.

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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

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We may be partial, but Fate is not.

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A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

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A man is a god in ruins.

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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

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All high beauty has a moral element in it.

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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

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The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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Life is our dictionary.

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Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

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Power is the first good.

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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