Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Loss Quotes

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

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My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

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We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

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We wake from one dream into another dream.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

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Our prayers are prophets.

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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again.

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Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye.

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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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There is no true orator who is not a hero.

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