Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Men Quotes

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

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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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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

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Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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The universe is the externalization of the soul.

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

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