Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perspective Quotes

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

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Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

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God hides things by putting them near us.

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Activity is contagious.

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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

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The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

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You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

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Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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Our best thoughts come from others.

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Frankness invites frankness.

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