Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Growing Up Quotes, Men Quotes

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

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Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

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Our distrust is very expensive.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

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Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

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The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

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The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

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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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