Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Time Quotes, Preparation Quotes

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

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Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

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The primary wisdom is intuition.

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We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

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Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

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Man is a piece of the universe made alive

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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

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The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

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A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.

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Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

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