Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Mind Quotes, Influence Quotes

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

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Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

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Never utter the truism but live it among men.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

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Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

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Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

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Genius is power, talent is applicability.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself

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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

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