Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Religious Quotes

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.

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You cannot see the mountain near.

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All science is transcendental or else passes away.

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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

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The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

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The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

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