Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fall Quotes, World Quotes

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

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Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

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Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

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All great men come out of the middle classes.

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It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

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