Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

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To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

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A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

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The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

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If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

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To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

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There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

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If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

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A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to the mediaeval mind. It appealed strongly to common human sympathy and pity; it startled also another feeling, that of fear. It frightened men and awed them. It made them feel that man is blind and helpless, the plaything of an inscrutable power, called by the name of Fortune or some other name,-a power which appears to smile on him for a little, and then on a sudden strikes him down in his pride.

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I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

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It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

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