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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotes (2363)

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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
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Your work should be in praise of what you love.
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Every word was once a poem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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The order of things consents to virtue.
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
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The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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