Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Prayer Quotes

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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Reality is a sliding door.

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The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

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An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

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War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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