Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Summer Quotes, Stars Quotes

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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The world exists for the education of each man.

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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

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The life of truth is cold.

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I like people who can do things

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Look out! Behind you!

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

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Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

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But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

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There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

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We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

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