Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Men Quotes

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

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Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

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Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

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

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The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

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Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

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A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

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Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

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