Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Friendship buys friendship.

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We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

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Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

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Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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People who know how to act are never preachers.

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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

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The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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