Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Expression Quotes

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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Land of lost gods and godlike men.

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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

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Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you.

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What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

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We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

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The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

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I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

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As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.

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A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

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