Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Kings Quotes

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

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The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.

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Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

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But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

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All vigor is contagious.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

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It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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