Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Future Quotes, Reality Quotes

Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

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The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

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To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

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The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

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The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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No sensible person ever made an apology.

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

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Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

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An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

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A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

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