Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fear Quotes, Mean Quotes

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

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The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

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Lose yourself in nature and find peace

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

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If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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