Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Men Quotes

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

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That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

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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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We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

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A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

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I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

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