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01c. 1842 AD

No law can be finally sacred to me but the law of my own nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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02c. 1842 AD

No man is quite sane; each has a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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03c. 1842 AD

Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty and the worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for its pride.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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04c. 50 AD

Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists by nature, but all things become so by habit.

Epictetus / quote

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05c. 1790 AD

One finds human nature everywhere great and little, beautiful and ugly.... Go on bravely working.

Goethe / quote

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06c. 1790 AD

Only to the apt, the pure, and the true does Nature resign herself and reveal her secrets.

Goethe / quote

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07c. 1842 AD

Our books are false by being fragmentary; the sentences are "bon mots," and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature—or worse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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08c. 1790 AD

Our relations are far too artificial and complicated, our nutriment and mode of life are without their proper nature, and our social intercourse is without proper love and goodwill. Every one is polished and courteous, but no one has the courage to be hearty and true.

Goethe / quote

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09c. 1842 AD

Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul, wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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10c. 1842 AD

Poem (a) is a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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11c. 1842 AD

Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see that, against all appearances, the nature of things works for truth and right for ever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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12c. 1842 AD

Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth that beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, have no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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13c. 1790 AD

So soon as one's heart is tender it is weak. When it is beating so warmly against the breast, and the throat is, as it were, tied tightly, and one strives to press the tears from one's eyes and feels an incomprehensible joy as they begin to flow, then we are so weak that we are fettered by chains of flowers, not because they have become strong through any magic chain, but because we tremble lest we should tear them asunder.

Goethe / quote

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14c. 1790 AD

So wonderful is human nature, and its varied ties / Are so involved and complicate, that none / May hope to keep his inward spirit pure, / And walk without perplexity through life.

Goethe / quote

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15c. 1842 AD

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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16c. 1842 AD

Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance; all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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17c. 1593 AD

Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.

Francis Bacon / quote

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18c. 1790 AD

Superstition is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do so with safety.

Goethe / quote

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19c. 1842 AD

That which, intellectually considered, we call Reason, considered in relation to nature we call Spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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20c. 1790 AD

The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, but for its appearance, had been for ever concealed from us.

Goethe / quote

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21c. 1790 AD

The demonic is that which cannot be explained by reason or understanding, which is not in one's nature, yet to which it is subject.

Goethe / quote

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22c. 1790 AD

The highest gift which we receive from God and Nature is Life, the revolving movement, which knows neither pause nor rest, of the self-conscious being round itself. The instinct to protect and cherish life is indestructibly innate in every one, but the peculiarity of it ever remains a mystery to us and others.

Goethe / quote

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23c. 1790 AD

The highest joys spring from those possessions which are common to all, which we can neither alienate ourselves nor be deprived of by others, to which kind Nature has given all an equal right—a right which she herself guards with silent omnipotence.

Goethe / quote

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24c. 1842 AD

The history of persecution is a history of endeavours to cheat Nature, to make water run uphill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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