Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

He is great who confers the most benefits.

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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

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There is a crack in everything God has made

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Immitation is suicide.

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

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A great man is always willing to be little.

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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

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It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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All men in the abstract are just and good.

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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