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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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

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Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

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Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

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