Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, People Quotes

The instinct of the people is right.

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Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

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In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

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We boil at different degrees.

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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.

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

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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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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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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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It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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