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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Context:
The closing of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1836 essay "Nature".
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson