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Heart Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

103 Heart quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson writes that a hopeful heart can turn each day into a bright chance, and that setting your heart on a goal helps it become yours. He reminds us that tragedy lives in the observer’s view, not in the sufferer’s heart. Opening both heart and mind to virtue reveals a quiet, sweet beauty.

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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

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A friend is the hope of the heart.

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All men are poets at heart.

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God hid the whole world in thy heart.

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All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

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Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until…

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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of…

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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the…

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“The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst…

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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he…

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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its…

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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God,…

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I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall…

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Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that…

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And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to…

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Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never…

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the…

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very…

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered…

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears…

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the…

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Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and…

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If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or…

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day,…

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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next…

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee…

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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action…

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Up and away for life! be fleet!- The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles…

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I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love…

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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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