Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Leadership Quotes

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

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As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

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But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.

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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

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If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

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The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

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