Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Selfish Quotes

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

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In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

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Society has no bribe for me.

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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

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Tart, cathartic virtue.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

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