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Divine Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson describes a divine person as the mind’s prophecy and a friend as the heart’s hope. He speaks of the divine gift as an instant life that creates, uses, and lets go of the old. He also says that true divine individuals are organized victories of character.

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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

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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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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all…

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America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human…

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by…

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Give me the eye to see a navy in an acorn. What is there of the divine in a load of bricks?What…

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but…

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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation…

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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted…

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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life…

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Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,…

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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to…

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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of…

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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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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and…

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We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort…

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Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when…

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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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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who…

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what…

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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

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Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and…

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Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the…

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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its…

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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it…

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The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game…

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Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact.…

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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . .…

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The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the…

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By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can…

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we…

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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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