Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Holiday Quotes, Epic Quotes

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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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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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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The eye is easily frightened.

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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

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The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

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There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.

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Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

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The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

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