Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 55

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Never utter the truism but live it among men. View quote
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I like man, but not men. View quote
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Men are better than this theology. View quote
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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced. View quote
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America is a country of young men. View quote
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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. View quote
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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years. View quote
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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. View quote
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. View quote
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues. View quote
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames. View quote
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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side. View quote
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He is a good man who can receive a gift well. View quote
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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper. View quote
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Nature tells every secret once. View quote
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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, nor a mark of haste, or botching, or a second thought but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. View quote
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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us. View quote
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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped. View quote
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The world is his who can see through its pretension. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Tart, cathartic virtue. View quote
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For the world was built in order And the atoms march in tune Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon. View quote
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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. View quote
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Only that mind draws me which I cannot read. View quote
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