Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Law Quotes

But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

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The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

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The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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My giant goes with me wherever I go.

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We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

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