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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotes (2363)

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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.
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I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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The surest poison is time.
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