Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Light Quotes, Discovery Quotes

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

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The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

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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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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

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Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

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Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

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Adult males are what their moms designed them.

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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

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