Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Mean Quotes, Wind Quotes

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

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Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.

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There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

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An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

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Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?

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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

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