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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith. View quote
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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you. View quote
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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. View quote
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The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life. View quote
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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. View quote
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. View quote
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Genius borrows nobly. View quote
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Skepticism is slow suicide. View quote
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.... Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. View quote
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. View quote
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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. View quote
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There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. View quote
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. View quote
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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. View quote
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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coatskirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction. View quote
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Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one. View quote
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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history, and his wants. View quote
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. View quote
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What's a book Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. View quote
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I do not hesitate to read. . . all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable --any real insight or broad human sentiment. View quote
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Knowledge is an antidote to fear. View quote
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. View quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Occupation: American Philosopher
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882
Quotes count: 1647
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