Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Light Quotes

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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

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The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

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Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

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