Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Men Quotes

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

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Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

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though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

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Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

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Accept your genius and say what you think.

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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

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The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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