Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Faith Quotes, Reality Quotes

Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries.

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Nature tells every secret once.

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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

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A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

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The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

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The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

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Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

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I like people who like Plato.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

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Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

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I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

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