Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, God Quotes, Self Quotes

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

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Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

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In good writing, words become one with things.

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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Youth is everywhere in place.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

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