Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hate Quotes, Ego Quotes

How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

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No man can have society upon his own terms.

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Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

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Power educates the potentate.

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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

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The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

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The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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First be a good animal.

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