Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Eye Quotes, Sight Quotes

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

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There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

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I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

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All life is an experiment.

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

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The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

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The first wealth is health.

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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Science finds it methods.

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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

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Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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Every man is grave alone.

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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