Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Power Quotes, Joy Quotes

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

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That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

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Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

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Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

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

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

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