Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Strong Quotes, Men Quotes

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

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But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

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Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

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The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

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To fill the hour──that is happiness.

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We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

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