Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Men Quotes

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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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

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Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

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Activity is contagious.

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'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

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The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

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The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

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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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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

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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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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

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