Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fear Quotes

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

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The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

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Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

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Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

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A man in debt is so far a slave.

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