Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Science Quotes, Use Quotes

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

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Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

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Invention breeds invention.

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All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

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