Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Men Quotes

It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

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Nature hates calculators.

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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

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The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

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It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

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A moment is a concentrated eternity.

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

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But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

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By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

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Real action is in silent moments.

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