Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I see my trees repair their boughs.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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The surest poison is time.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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Fear is a great instructor.

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Only to youth will spring be spring.

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You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

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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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Convert life into truth.

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So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

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The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.

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

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