Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Average Quotes

Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

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All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

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Science finds it methods.

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It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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We boil at different degrees.

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

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Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

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We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear

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Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

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