Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hero Quotes, Greek Quotes

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

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I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

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Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

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Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

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