Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Past Quotes, Soul Quotes

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

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To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

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How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

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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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Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

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I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

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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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