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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

American Poet, Writer, Philosopher May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now, and the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world, and still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose, and the air, and the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature...."
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them..."
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields..."
Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have..."
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason."
Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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