Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Race Quotes

If the race is good, so is the place.

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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

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For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

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Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

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Every man is grave alone.

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

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For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

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Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

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