Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, World Quotes, Conspiracy Quotes

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

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One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

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Make youself necessary to someone.

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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

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The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.

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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

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Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

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Wherever there is power there is age.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

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Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

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The shot heard round the world.

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