Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Grief Quotes

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

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That man is idle who can do something better.

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

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If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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