Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Selfish Quotes

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

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Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

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For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

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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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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

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Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

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What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

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A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

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