Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Song Quotes

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

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Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

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Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

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"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

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We find in life exactly what we put into it

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