Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Time Quotes, Laughter Quotes

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

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A nation never falls but by suicide.

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When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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No society can ever be so large as one man.

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

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Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

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The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

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For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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