Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hope Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

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In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

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Fear always springs from ignorance.

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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

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This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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