Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Want Something Quotes, Sick Quotes

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

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Nature is upheld by antagonism.

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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

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Concentration is the secret of srength.

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The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

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Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

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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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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

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Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

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