Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Garden Quotes

A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

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A man's library is a sort of harem.

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

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To be great, you must be misunderstood

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Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

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This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

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