Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Power Quotes

Power is the first good.

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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.

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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

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A great teacher makes hard things easy.

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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

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Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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We boil at different degrees.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

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