Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Country Quotes, Sweet Quotes

A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

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I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

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Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

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Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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