Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

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He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

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We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

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One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

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Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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