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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
What the tender and poetic youth dreams today, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is tomorrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Venus, when her son was lost, cried him up and down the coast, in hamlets, palaces, and parks, and told the truant by his marks, golden curls, and quiver, and bow (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns it's arc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Every heroic act measures itself by it's contempt of some external good. But it finds it's own success at last, and then the prudent also extol (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Art and power will go on as they have done, will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If the gatherer gathers too much, nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents - flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to it's rule and it's credit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, landor replies, yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, or grew on vine whose tap roots, reaching through under the Andes to the Cape, suffered no savor of the Earth to escape (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
But what is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
By virtue of the deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)