Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Strong Quotes, Selfish Quotes

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

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What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

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All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

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There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

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No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

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New York is a sucked orange.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

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It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

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