Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Party Quotes, Wind Quotes

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

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Every time you wink the stars move.

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Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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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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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.

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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

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When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

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