Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Men Quotes

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

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You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

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I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

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Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

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