Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Children Quotes, Regret Quotes

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

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He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again.

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise.

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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