Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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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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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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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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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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.