Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Religious Quotes, Humility Quotes

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

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The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

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Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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