Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

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What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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I am become a transparent eyeball.

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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

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Labor is God's education.

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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

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Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

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Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

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Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

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Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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Quotation confesses inferiority.

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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

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