Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Health Quotes

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

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Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

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Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

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Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

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For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

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Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

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We have more than we use.

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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

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