Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Savages Quotes

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

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Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

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Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

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