Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Running Quotes, Fire Quotes

We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

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The poem is a confession of faith.

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

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Life is a festival only to the wise.

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The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

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

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For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

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But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

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You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

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