Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Live in the sunshine.

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If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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Women see through Claude Lorraines.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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I am become a transparent eyeball.

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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

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A day is a miniature eternity.

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We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

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There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

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Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

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Today is a king in disguise.

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