Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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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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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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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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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
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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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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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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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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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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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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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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.