Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

All history is biography.

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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

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Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

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Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

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New arts destroy the old.

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The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

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Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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Every advantage has its tax.

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The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look solid, real and insurmountable. .. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the power of the mind. Man is capable of abolishing them both.

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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

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Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

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