Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

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Our expenses are all for conformity.

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

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The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

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The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

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Find the journey's end in every step.

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We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

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