Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Arriving Quotes

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

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The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

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Earth laughs in flowers.

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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

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Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

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

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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

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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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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

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