Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

To be great, you must be misunderstood

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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

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I like people who like Plato.

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The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

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Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

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I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

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Every word was once a poem.

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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

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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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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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All things are known to the soul.

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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

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a good reader makes a good book

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