Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Song Quotes, Spring Quotes

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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All high beauty has a moral element in it.

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Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

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I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

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There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

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...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

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A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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