Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

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It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

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You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

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Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

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An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

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Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

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