Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Talking Quotes, America Quotes

In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

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Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

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Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

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A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

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The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

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The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

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It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

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Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old.

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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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