Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Time Quotes, Perfect Quotes

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

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The virtue of books is to be readable.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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The pest of society is egotists.

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The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

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The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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