Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Men Quotes

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

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It is the eye which makes the horizon.

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All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

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All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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A day is a miniature eternity.

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

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