Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Kings Quotes, Giving Quotes

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

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I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

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All mankind love a lover.

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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

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The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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Quotation confesses inferiority.

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The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

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Civilization depends on morality.

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Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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