Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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Self trust is the essence of heroism.

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But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

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Skepticism is slow suicide.

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Be not the slave of your own past.

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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

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