Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friends Quotes, Character Quotes

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

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I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.

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The best of life is conversation.

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Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

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If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

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We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

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And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

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Our best thoughts come from others.

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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

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Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

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Whatever limits us we call fate.

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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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No book was ever written down by any but itself.

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Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

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