Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, House Quotes, Enemy Quotes

Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

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The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

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We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

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Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

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The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

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