Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Strong Quotes, Honesty Quotes

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.

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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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a good reader makes a good book

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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively.

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

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