Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Regret Quotes, Greatness Quotes

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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Adult males are what their moms designed them.

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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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The eye of prudence may never shut.

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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

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Character is that which can do without success.

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Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

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We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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