Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Historical Quotes

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

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Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

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A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

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Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

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Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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There are some men above grief and some men below it.

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