Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Promise Quotes

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

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I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

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In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker.

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All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.

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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

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The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

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France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

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What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

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Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?

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How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

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Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.

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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

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To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

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