Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Every word was once a poem.

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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

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The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

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A little integrity is better than any career.

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We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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It is the eye which makes the horizon.

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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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