Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Law Quotes, Giving Quotes

My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

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Blessed are those who have no talent!

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

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It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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What you are comes to you.

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Wise men are not wise at all times.

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The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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