Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Combat Quotes

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

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The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

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Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

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It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

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To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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

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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

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Conversation is a game of circles.

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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

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