Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Space Quotes, Mind Quotes

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

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There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

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There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

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You are constantly invited to be what you are.

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A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

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A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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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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The dearest events are summer-rain.

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The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

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