Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Memories Quotes, Light Quotes

In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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Do what you're afraid to do.

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Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

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Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

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In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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