Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes

When a man meets his make, society begins.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

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Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

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England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

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The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

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