Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Pride Quotes

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

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Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

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Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

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If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

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Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

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The rain comes when the wind calls.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

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