Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

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Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

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The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

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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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Some will always be above others.

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No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

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Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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