Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Eye Quotes, Giving Quotes

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

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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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Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

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a good reader makes a good book

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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

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A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

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