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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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"Earth laughs in flowers."
Nature

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
Friendship

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
Friendship

"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

"The first wealth is health."

"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child."

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Nature

"If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
Peace

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both."

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

"I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page."

"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot."

"You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him."

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
Science

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
Science

"We must be our own before we can be another's."

"The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco."

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