Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Action Quotes, Forget Quotes

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

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"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

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The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

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Thought is the seed of action.

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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

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Every noble activity makes room for itself.

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Tart, cathartic virtue.

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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

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But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

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Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

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