Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fate Quotes

We can only obey our own polarity.

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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

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When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

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God will not make himself manifest to cowards

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively.

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Fear is a great instructor.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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