Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Intellectual Quotes, Society Quotes

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

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Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

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We must be our own before we can be another's.

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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

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What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

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The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

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An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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