Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Reading Quotes, Heart Quotes

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

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Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

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Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

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Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

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There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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A man is a god in ruins.

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The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

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Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

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Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

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Popularity is for dolls.

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