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Soul Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

194 Soul quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul, suggesting that the world shares hidden wisdom. The quotes claim that the soul drives reform and that true friendship feels like an immortal bond. They also contrast fine souls, which serve humanity, with fine society, which merely protects itself from vulgarity.

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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

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It is one soul which animates all men.

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There is more in every person's soul than we think.

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All things are known to the soul.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

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Souls are not saved in bundles.

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The universe is the externalization of the soul.

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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop

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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul...

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected…

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The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though…

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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His…

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer…

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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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“There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are And it…

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There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight…

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When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is…

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“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or…

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“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth…

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are…

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul…

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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round…

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That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated…

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Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and…

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it…

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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an…

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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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The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only…

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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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There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of…

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Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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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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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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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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