Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Intellectual Quotes

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

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I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

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A man is related to all nature.

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The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

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To be great, you must be misunderstood

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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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We wake from one dream into another dream.

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Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

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Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

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Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

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