Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Luxury Quotes

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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Great men have the nature of a child.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

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Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

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To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

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But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

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There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

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That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

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The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

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