Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Ashamed Quotes

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

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For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

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Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

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Every natural action is graceful.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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Eyes...They speak all languages.

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Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

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Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

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