Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fear Quotes, Mean Quotes

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

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The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

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Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

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Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

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I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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Character is that which can do without success.

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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