Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Majority Quotes

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

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All great men come out of the middle classes.

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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

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Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

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Every man is a new method.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

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Men are better than this theology.

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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

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