Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Men Quotes

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

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"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

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A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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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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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

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Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

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We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

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A man is a god in ruins.

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I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

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Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

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The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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