Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Be a gift and a benediction.

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...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

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Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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The eye is easily frightened.

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Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.

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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

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Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

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