Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Education Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

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Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

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This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

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There is always safety in valor.

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Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

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