Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Character Quotes, Loss Quotes

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

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So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

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After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

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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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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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Power and speed be hands and feet.

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The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear

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A moment is a concentrated eternity.

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