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As sunbeams stream through liberal space and nothing jostle or displace, so waved the pine tree through my thought and fanned the dreams it never brought (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well being is always ahead (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in it's fact (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, if you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A mollusk is a cheap edition with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster bank or among the seaweed (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute fate or destiny (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of it's voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of it's hands and purity of it's heart (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
But genius looks forward: The eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)