Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Expression Quotes

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

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Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

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We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions.

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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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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

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A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

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Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

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The first wealth is health.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

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Live, let live, and help live

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