Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, His Love Quotes, Lovers Quotes

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

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

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The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

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My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

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Reality is a sliding door.

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When the gods come among men, they are not known.

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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

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Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

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