Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Coal is a portable climate.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.
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A mollusk is a cheap edition of man with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.