Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Children are all foreigners.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
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We are wiser than we know.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
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What you are comes to you.
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.