Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Waiting Quotes

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

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Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.

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Be not the slave of your own past.

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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

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Find the journey's end in every step.

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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

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Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

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