Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

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Everything good is on the highway.

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I like people who can do things

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

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We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

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You can take better care of your secret than another can.

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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

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Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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