Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Passion Quotes, Self Quotes

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

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A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

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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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I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

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This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

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The world belongs to the energetic.

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

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The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

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There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

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God hides things by putting them near us.

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

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