Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Men Quotes

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

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Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

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We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

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When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

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Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

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You see, it's all clear, we were meant to be here from the beginning.

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Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

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All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

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With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.

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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

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