Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Father Quotes, Son Quotes

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

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Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

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Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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America is another name for opportunity.

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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

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Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

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The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

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