Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wall Quotes, Heart Quotes

Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.

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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

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I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

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Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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