Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Heart Quotes, Science Quotes

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

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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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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

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My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

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A moment is a concentrated eternity.

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The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

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If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

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