Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Village Quotes, Woods Quotes

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

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Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

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Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

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There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

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Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

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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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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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Nature is saturated with Deity.

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There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

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