Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 15

England's genius filled all measure Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure, Gave to the mind its emperor, And life was larger than before: Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. View quote
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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. View quote
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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him. View quote
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself. View quote
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. View quote
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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop. View quote
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. View quote
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Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic. View quote
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend! View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us. View quote
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. View quote
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. View quote
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is. View quote
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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. View quote
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance. View quote
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Nothing can be preserved that is not good. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much. View quote
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. View quote
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom. View quote
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