Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beauty Quotes, May Quotes

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

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But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

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Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

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Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.

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But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

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'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

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