Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Age Quotes

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

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What we call results are beginnings.

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No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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Our thinking is a pious reception.

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Earth laughs in flowers.

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The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

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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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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

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It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

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Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

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We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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