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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as 'spiritual life,' 'God,' 'soul,' 'cross,' etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By the stairway of surprise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson