Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Men Quotes

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

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The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

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

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Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

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Skepticism is slow suicide.

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Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

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