Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

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Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

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What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

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