Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Strong Quotes, Honesty Quotes

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.

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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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Humility is the secret of the wise.

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I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

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The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

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The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

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We put our love where we have put our labor.

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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

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No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

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The city is recruited from the country.

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.

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