Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Winter Quotes, Night Quotes

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

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Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

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The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

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The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

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Revolutions go not backward.

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

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Calmness is always godlike.

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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

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