Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, People Quotes, Attention Quotes

Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

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The dice of God are always loaded.

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Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

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Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

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Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

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Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

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I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

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Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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