Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

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When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

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I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

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The language of the street is always strong.

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What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

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I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

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Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

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