Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Party Quotes, Men Quotes

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself

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A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

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A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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