Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Animal Quotes, Destiny Quotes

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

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How much finer things are in composition than alone.

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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

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The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

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Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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First be a good animal.

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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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Every word was once a poem.

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All life is an experiment.

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Thou art to me a delicious torment.

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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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