Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Religious Quotes

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

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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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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

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Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

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The world is all outside, it has no inside.

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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

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Be an opener of doors

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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

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The poor are only they who feel poor.

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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

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