Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Teaching Quotes

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

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The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

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No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

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But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.

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The surest poison is time.

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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

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The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

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Our strength grows out of our weakness.

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

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The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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