Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Looks Quotes

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

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Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

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Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

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It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

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The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

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The rain comes when the wind calls.

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