Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
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I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.
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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
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Each the herald is who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate.
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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
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Blessed are those who have no talent!
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A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone.
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all; And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
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And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, - now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.
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A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance. But I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.