Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Men Quotes

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

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All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

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As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

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Who loses a day loses life.

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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

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