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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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

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What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

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To be gret is to be misunderstood.

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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Only to youth will spring be spring.

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