Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Dream Quotes, Character Quotes

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

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Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.

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What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

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Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

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I like people who like Plato.

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You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

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I unsettle all things.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

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