Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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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.
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
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Blessed are those who have no talent!
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Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.
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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
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I think no virtue goes with size; The reason of all cowardice Is, that men are overgrown, And, to be valiant, must come down To the titmouse dimension.
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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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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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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.