Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Errors Quotes

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

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A man should give us a sense of mass.

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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

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The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.

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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

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