Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Two Quotes, Soul Quotes

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

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Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

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The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

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Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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New arts destroy the old.

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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

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