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Light Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The moon breaking through clouds at midnight shows how light can appear when we step away from the close view. The quotes describe light as a soul’s fire, a hero’s self‑trust, and a world thickened with brightness. They also note that true poets seek beauty and cheerfulness.

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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

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Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

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The sun shines today also.

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The world we live in is but thickened light.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

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For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines…

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the…

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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If…

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Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

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The sun shines and warms and light us, and we do no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask…

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“We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its…

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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God.…

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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not…

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations…

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The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new…

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There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A…

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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than…

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense…

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis…

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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her…

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It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his…

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For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime…

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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of…

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For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things,…

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All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not…

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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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Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,…

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

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Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

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“The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.”

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“The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.”

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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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