Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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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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Reality is a sliding door.
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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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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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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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There is always safety in valor.
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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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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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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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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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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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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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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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Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.
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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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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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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.