Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

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Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

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We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

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The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

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The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

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The highest end of government is the culture of men.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

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All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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