Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Cutting Quotes

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.

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In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

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Tart, cathartic virtue.

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All life is an experiment.

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Do your thing, and I shall know you.

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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

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We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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