Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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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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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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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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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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What you are comes to you.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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All mankind love a lover.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.