Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Nature Quotes

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

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Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

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The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

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Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

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And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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

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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

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