Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Tree Quotes

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

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There are some men above grief and some men below it.

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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

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But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

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Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

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The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

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I am become a transparent eyeball.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

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Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

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Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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