Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Men Quotes

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

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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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Great men exist that there might be greater men.

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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

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Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

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