Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Law Quotes

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

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And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

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Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

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