Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Intellectual Quotes, Society Quotes

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

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Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

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Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

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When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

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