Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Taken Quotes

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

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Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

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Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

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Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

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If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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Women see through Claude Lorraines.

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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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