Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Voice Quotes, Solitude Quotes

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

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In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

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When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

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Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

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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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Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

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