Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Order Quotes

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

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Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

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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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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

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The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

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A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

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The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

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