Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Grace Quotes

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

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The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

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Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

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Doing well is a result of doing good.

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.

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We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

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Nature tells every secret once.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

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