Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop
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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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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.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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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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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
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Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.
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Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
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Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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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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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.