Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Light Quotes

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

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The never-ending task of self improvement.

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To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

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Excellence is the new forever.

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All the devils respect virtue.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

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Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

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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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