Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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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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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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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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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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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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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
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Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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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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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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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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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?