Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Issues Quotes

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

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Beauty rests on necessities.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

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There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

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Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

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Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

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