Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Grows Quotes

We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

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Postpone not your life.

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We live ruins amid ruins.

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There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

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Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

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The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

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All vigor is contagious.

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The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

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