Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Wise Quotes

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

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Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

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The field cannot be seen from within the field.

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The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

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The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.

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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

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All science is transcendental or else passes away.

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What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

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