Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Facts Quotes

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

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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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A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

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I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

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The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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We find in life exactly what we put into it

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When there is no vision, people perish.

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