Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Soul Quotes, Self Reliance Quotes

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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Blame is safer than praise

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

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Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

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Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.

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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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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

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In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

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The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

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