Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Men Quotes

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

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Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

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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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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

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The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

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We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

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It is one soul which animates all men.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

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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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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

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