Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

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So far as a person thinks; they are free.

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

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The eye is easily frightened.

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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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Excellence is the new forever.

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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

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