Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Rain Quotes

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.

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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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What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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Make youself necessary to someone.

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The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

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