Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
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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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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Children are all foreigners.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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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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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.