Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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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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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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Revolutions go not backward.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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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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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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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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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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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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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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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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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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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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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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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.