Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Ideas Quotes

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

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Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

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Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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Character is that which can do without success.

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I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

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We go to Europe to be Americanized.

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My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

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Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

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Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

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The best part of health is fine disposition

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God is Unity, but always works in variety.

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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

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A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

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