Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Dog Quotes, Sight Quotes

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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Excellence is the new forever.

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Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

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The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

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Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

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Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

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The poor are only they who feel poor.

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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

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Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

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