Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, People Quotes

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

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Your work should be in praise of what you love.

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Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

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The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

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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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An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

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Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

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Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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I unsettle all things.

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Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

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