Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Education Quotes, Travel Quotes

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

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And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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The religions we call false were once true.

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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

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Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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