Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Soul Quotes

Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

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Men in all ways are better than they seem.

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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?

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A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

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The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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What we call results are beginnings.

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We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

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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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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

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