Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Travel Quotes

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

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A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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In imitation is a bit suicide.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

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Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

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With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

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No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

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Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

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