Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Men Quotes

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

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

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A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

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To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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