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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.
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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 ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs, The world uncertain comes and goes; The lover rooted stays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home: Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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Almost all people descend to meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul; that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind; that he is drinking forever the soul of God?
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Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson