Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Roots Quotes, Yield Quotes

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

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Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

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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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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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When half-gods go The gods arrive.

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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

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A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

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