Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Higher Ground Quotes

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

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The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

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Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

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Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

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Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

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A good deal of our politics is physiological.

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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

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True wit never made us laugh.

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All life is an experiment.

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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

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