Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Exercise Quotes

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

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The eye of prudence may never shut.

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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We change whether we like it or not.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

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There is properly no history, only biography.

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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

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The soul circumscribes all things.

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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

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