Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Party Quotes

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

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Desire is possibility seeking expression.

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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

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

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The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

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Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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Postpone not your life.

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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

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The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

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