Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Suicide Quotes, Religion Quotes

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

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Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

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For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

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Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

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Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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