Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

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The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

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Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

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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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Love, and you shall be loved.

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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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