Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I unsettle all things.

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All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?

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Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

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You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

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We change whether we like it or not.

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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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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.

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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

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Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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