Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Character Quotes, Foundation Quotes

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

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We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

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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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It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.

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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

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

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You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

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When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

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The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

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Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

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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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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

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