Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Honor Quotes, Crowds Quotes

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

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A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

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Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

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I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

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Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

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She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

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Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.

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But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

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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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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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

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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

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