Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Men Quotes

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

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it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

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How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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Coal is a portable climate.

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

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You cannot see the mountain near.

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The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

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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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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contended and contenting.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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