Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Mean Quotes

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

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Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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The soul circumscribes all things.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

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Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

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When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

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