Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Power Quotes

Power is the first good.

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Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

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There is a crack in everything God has made

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Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

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In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

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We can only obey our own polarity.

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

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Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

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Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

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A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

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