Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Business Quotes, Men Quotes

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

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The sun shines today also.

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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

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There is no history; only biography.

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In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

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there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

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We walk alone in the world.

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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

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