Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Power Quotes

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

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The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.

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The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

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For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

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Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

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