Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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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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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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There is always safety in valor.
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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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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Reality is a sliding door.
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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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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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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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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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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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.