Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Children Quotes

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

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How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

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Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

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Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

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A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.

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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

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I like people who like Plato.

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