Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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The silent organ loudest chants The master's requiem.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.