Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Character Quotes, Ice Quotes

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

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There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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