Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Dream Quotes, Real Quotes

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

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There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

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But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

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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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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

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There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

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Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

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