Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 17

Skill to do comes of doing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. View quote
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Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. View quote
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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind. View quote
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. View quote
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. View quote
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. View quote
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Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. View quote
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era. View quote
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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive. View quote
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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is. View quote
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread. View quote
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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. View quote
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If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. View quote
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A man's library is a sort of harem. View quote
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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed. View quote
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Society is a hospital of incurables. View quote
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state. View quote
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The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind. View quote
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Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. View quote
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. View quote
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men. View quote
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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one. View quote
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