Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Simple Quotes, Office Quotes

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

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The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

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And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

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Build therefore your own world.

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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

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It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

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