Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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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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The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
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Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
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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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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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Blessed are those who have no talent!
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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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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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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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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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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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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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Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
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Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home: Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, 'All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile.'
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And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.