Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Cutting Quotes

Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

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The universe is the externalization of the soul.

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For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

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Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

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The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

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The pest of society is egotists.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

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Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

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We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

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