Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Discovery Quotes

Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

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The house praises the carpenter.

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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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I like man, but not men.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

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The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

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All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

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Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

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Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

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