Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Progress Quotes, Routine Quotes

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

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Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

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Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

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But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

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But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

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

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

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