Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Land Quotes

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.

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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

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The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

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Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

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What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

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There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

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Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

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If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

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The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

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For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

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Skepticism is slow suicide.

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Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

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