Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Waiting Quotes

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

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The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

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Man's life is a progress, not a station.

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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

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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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Souls are not saved in bundles.

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

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As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

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The lover of letters loves power too.

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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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