Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Time Quotes

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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A man in debt is so far a slave.

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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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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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Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

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It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

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Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

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The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

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We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

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The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

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