Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Men Quotes

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

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The best part of health is fine disposition

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Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

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When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

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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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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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