Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Errors Quotes, Profound Quotes

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

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All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

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Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

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The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

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Man's life is a progress, not a station.

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Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

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There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

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We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

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Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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