Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Jesus Quotes

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

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And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

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The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

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Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

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There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

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Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

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A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

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