Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, School Quotes, Men Quotes

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

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Revolutions go not backward.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

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When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

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The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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