Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Grief Quotes, Evil Quotes

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

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Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

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Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

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Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

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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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It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

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It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

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Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

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The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

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Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

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