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The aspect of nature is devou...

The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Whatever appeals to the imagi...

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Solitude is impractical, and ...

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Man is not a farmer, or a pro...

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

I am not so foolish as to dec...

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Where the heart is, there the...

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

It is the dissenter, the theo...

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

The permanence of all books i...

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

We might as easily reprove th...

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Housekeeping is not beautiful...

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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Every materialist will be an ...

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

Again, the great number of cu...

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

We owe to genius always the s...

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

In the actual world--the pain...

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

The philanthropists inquire w...

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

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For, truly speaking, whoever ...

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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A man in a cave or in a camp,...

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

But, if we explore the litera...

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 5320 quotes

History - a biography of a fe...

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

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Free should be the scholar - ...

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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