Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 23

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. View quote
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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure. View quote
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The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. View quote
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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. View quote
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Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark. View quote
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Build therefore your own world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence. View quote
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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain. View quote
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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others. View quote
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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things. View quote
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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle... is another riddle. View quote
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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding. View quote
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Every word was once a poem. View quote
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Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. View quote
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Things refuse to be mismanaged for long. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I hate quotations. View quote
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Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches. View quote
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In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind; that he is drinking forever the soul of God? View quote
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I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson