Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Imagination Quotes

The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

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The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

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Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

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Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

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The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

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