Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Errors Quotes, Profound Quotes

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

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The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

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We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

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Liberty is a slow fruit.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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