Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Country Quotes, Sight Quotes

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

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All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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Up and away for life! be fleet!- The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles the blood to the marble bones, Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense, And hems in life with narrowing fence. Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,- The punctual stars will vigil keep,- Embalmed by purifying cold; The winds shall sing their dead-march old, The snow is no ignoble shroud, The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

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A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

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