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Return Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In the woods we return to reason and faith.
- The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other…
- Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;…
- Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual…
- Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
- Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
- It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return…
- I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that…
- The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The…
- "In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my…
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