Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Suicide Quotes

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

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All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

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The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

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History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

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The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

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For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

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