Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 59

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The only right is what is after my constitution the only wrong is what is against it. View quote
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. View quote
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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures it is the finest of the fine arts. View quote
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. View quote
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag. View quote
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. View quote
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The dice of God are always loaded. View quote
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. View quote
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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco. View quote
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. View quote
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THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so. View quote
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting. View quote
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. View quote
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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius.... They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead man hopes genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. View quote
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The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them. View quote
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. View quote
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The course of everything goes to teach us faith. View quote
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Our faith comes in moments ... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. View quote
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use. View quote
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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses. View quote
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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel. View quote
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Nature ... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. View quote
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