Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Humility Quotes

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

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Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.

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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

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The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

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