Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Work Quotes

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

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There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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He only is rich who owns the day.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

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He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

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Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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Look out! Behind you!

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Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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