Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Time Quotes, Preparation Quotes

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

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Excellence is the new forever.

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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

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The lover of letters loves power too.

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Nature tells every secret once.

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

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The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

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Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

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The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

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Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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It is never too late to do right.

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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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