Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Religious Quotes, Humility Quotes

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

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I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

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We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

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The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

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Blessed are those who have no talent!

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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

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Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

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It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

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

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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

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