Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Song Quotes

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

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Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

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The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

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Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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