Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Exaggeration Is Quotes

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

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The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

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Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

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Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

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The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

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The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

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Literature is eavesdropping.

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Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

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The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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