Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 18

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What potent blood hath modest May! View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut. View quote
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I think no virtue goes with size; The reason of all cowardice Is, that men are overgrown, And, to be valiant, must come down To the titmouse dimension. View quote
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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. View quote
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Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. View quote
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I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion. View quote
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The religions we call false were once true. View quote
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Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. View quote
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Love and you shall be loved. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
People do not deserve to have good writings they are so pleased with the bad. View quote
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. View quote
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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. View quote
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Go often to the house of thy friend, weeds choke the unused path. View quote
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Books are for nothing but to inspire. View quote
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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. View quote
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Be an opener of doors. View quote
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To the attentive eye each moment of the year has its own beauty and in the same field it beholds every hour a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again. View quote
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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones they are for what they are they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose. It is perfect in every moment of its existence. View quote
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Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. View quote
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius. View quote
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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. View quote
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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. View quote
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