Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Education Quotes, Believe Quotes

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

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

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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

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When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

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The never-ending task of self improvement.

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No institution will be better than the institutor.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

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What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

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It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

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The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

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The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

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