Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Soul Quotes, Solitude Quotes

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

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The hero is he who is immovably centered.

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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

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Truth is the summit of being.

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Some will always be above others.

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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

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