Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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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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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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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 secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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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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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.