Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Art Quotes

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

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All the world loves a lover.

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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

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The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.

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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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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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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

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Blame is safer than praise

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