Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Jobs Quotes, Men Quotes

The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

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The soul circumscribes all things.

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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

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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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There is a crack in everything God has made

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

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Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye.

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

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