Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
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For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.