Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Morning Quotes, Wind Quotes

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

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Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

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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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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

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If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

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He is great who confers the most benefits.

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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

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Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

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Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

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