Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Smile Quotes, Confidence Quotes

This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

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We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

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Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

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The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

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The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

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The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

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The religions we call false were once true.

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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

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Your work should be in praise of what you love.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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