Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Animal Quotes, Progress Quotes

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

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

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We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

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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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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

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Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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Power dwells with cheerfulness.

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I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

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The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

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Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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