Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Liberty Quotes

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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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

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All the devils respect virtue.

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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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There are some men above grief and some men below it.

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The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

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Do what you're afraid to do.

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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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